Word: fortyish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does Polly, a fortyish art historian at work on a biography of a brilliant, little-known woman painter named Lorin Jones, really have a problem? Polly's women friends don't think so. Most of them are solitaries of one sort or another, and they warmly support her isolation. She is well shed, they feel, of her first husband, a medical researcher who, a few years before, with typical male arrogance, left Manhattan for a job in Denver, forcing Polly to choose between marriage and her museum job. Her only difficulty, in this view, is that their delightful 13-year...
...Randy shared a few things in common, including, it is often suggested, a strong romantic entanglement. "It is a great partnership" is as far as Randy will go to characterize the relationship. But Hatcher, fortyish, is as close to her boy now as she was way back in 1978, when she put up $10,000 for his first two singles, released by a local label out of Shreveport, La. They also shared a strong sense of Randy's destiny and in 1981 were already making the rounds and plugging songs in Nashville. Finally, in 1985, a Warner Bros. Records exec...
What Am I Doing Here? -- Lawyer, personable, nice job, great wife, cute kid, very happily married . . . (well, reasonably happy, I mean, O.K., I'm fortyish and I don't even want to think about approaching mid-life, let alone a mid- life crisis, but still) . . . seeks . . . (no, not 'seeks,' maybe 'is willing to entertain the notion of meeting') . . . attractive woman who might want to spend a weekend over drinks, dinner and dishes. Or not. Your call. Uh, wait! Don't call -- at home or the office. Instead, write me if you want...
...stands apart from the usual run of prestige TV drama in several respects. First, for its unrelenting bleakness: the only possible relief from Tommy's mounting misfortunes is a bitter laugh at their Job-like extravagance. Then, for its particularity: the movie is a vivid portrait of a fortyish Jewish man on Manhattan's Upper West Side in the mid-1950s, yet it refuses to promulgate a larger message about Jews, New York City or life in the '50s. And finally, for the very fact that it was made. Despite his widespread acclaim (and a Nobel Prize for Literature...
...time occasionally mumbling "What day is it?" and in the company of a woman with a troubled past. His mind enfeebled by Alzheimer's disease, Bing, now 85, has been living for the past week in a modest two-story bungalow on the island of Anguilla with Carroll Douglass, fortyish, whom he met last year. If she is to be believed, the two are "totally in love" and on their honeymoon; if Bing's court-appointed protectors are to be believed, Bing, a widower and childless, is being victimized by a mentally confused woman. Whatever the legal resolution...