Word: fiftyish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...indignation colors their lives. Having sacrificed her own youth to the care of her mother, she holds Marge's brief, unsuccessful fling at marriage in daily contempt. Nellie sews dresses at home. Margo works in a munitions factory and drinks-when she can afford to-because she is fiftyish, fat and frustrated. The time is 1944 and the city is full of American soldiers: "Overpaid," as Rita's father (and everybody else) once said, "oversexed and over here...
...Children, one of television's soapiest midday dramas. Yet when kindly Dr. Julien removed the bandages from Margo's uplifted face before 10 million viewers this week, the postoperative black eyes and discolored skin thus exposed were in very living color. It turns out that Eileen Letchworth, fiftyish, the actress who has been Margo Flax for the past two years, had her real-life face surgically elevated earlier in the month. The show's relentless producers, recognizing a heart-rending episode when they saw one, arranged for art to imitate lift. Margo and Eileen are facing their...
...LEON EISENBERG, professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, doesn't immediately stand out as the sort of person who gives impassioned speeches at rallies in solidarity with Greek demonstrators. Fiftyish, distinguished in his profession, chief of the psychiatry department at Massachusetts General Hospital, he seems perfectly comfortable in his book-lined office. But there he was last November, talking to 150 students gathered in the Science Center to denounce what Greek police--with American tanks--were doing to anti-government demonstrators, telling about the defendant in a political trial in Athens...
Married. Eva Gabor, 47, Hungarian comedienne who is less famous as an actress (she starred in the television series Green Acres) than as a one-woman marriage statistic; and Frank Gard Jameson, fiftyish, senior vice president of the Rockwell International Corp.; she for the fifth time, he for the second; in Claremont, Calif. The Gabor women (Mother Jolie and daughters Magda, Zsa Zsa and Eva) have now been married a total of 19 times...
Divorced. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 54, Nobel-prizewinning Russian novelist; and Natalya Alexeyevna Reshetovskaya, fiftyish; after 24 years of marriage (three of separation), no children; in Ryazan, U.S.S.R. Natalya's settlement is said to be one-third of the writer's $80,000 Nobel money. Solzhenitsyn, after a brief waiting period, will be free to marry Natalya Svetlova, 34, the mother of his two sons...