Word: elders
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Unless you happen to be a tribal elder with a taste for geological metaphors. To the old chief, Tristan is the rock everyone "broke themselves against," and a good thing too, since from their suffering he gains "his honor and a long life." Swell, but we're left with our stifled laughter and a very long movie...
...elder Galluccio was one of a handful of Italian-Americans at Harvard and later Harvard Law School, from which he matriculated...
...Afterlife and Other Stories by John Updike (Knopf). Again, elder writesman Updike proves his durability by turning out yet another splendid collection of elegant short stories about -- no, no, stay with him -- Wasp geezers who golf. Now and then, unblocked metaphors rise up shrieking: one duffer is resigned "to a golfing mediocrity that would poke its way down the sloping dogleg of decrepitude to the level green of death." Fore? Sure, but Lord, how that senior citizen can write...
...ceremony in his hometown of College Station, Tx. Gramm told reporters in Atlanta today that he'll follow his kickoff speech with a swing through Georgia, where he was born, and then the early primary states of New Hampshire, Iowa and Arizona. Gramm, the combative elder statesman of the Republican Party's conservative wing, is a close ally of House Speaker-elect Newt Gingrich.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
...week's end Democratic resumes clogged printshops on Capitol Hill, where real estate agents predicted a buyers' market in brick town houses. Some Democrats, however, were slow to accept the news. An incumbent committee chairman, informed by a Democratic party elder that the House was falling to the Republicans, began to prattle on about how he would adjust his agenda to accommodate the newcomers. "Don't you understand?" the party elder interrupted. "You're not the chairman anymore...