Word: fortyishness
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...Lifetime, "the women's network," its three first-ever original programs--the drama Any Day Now and the comedies Maggie and Oh Baby--focus on women who renounce yuppie partnering fantasies for loftier pursuits. In fact, just like Providence, Any Day Now has as one of its protagonists a fortyish Washington refugee who gives up on power brokering and a noncommittal boyfriend to settle in her native town of Birmingham, Ala., and practice civil rights...
...happens in a high school classroom when Thomas Robertson, a fortyish substitute math teacher, takes notice of Amy, who has inherited her mother's shyness but none of her plainness. When Robertson urges Amy to "come on out...everybody's been asking about you," she complies in ways that she, and certainly Isabelle, never imagined...
...grew up in the Morning Star, a London home for unwanted children. Her interview at Quincunx House has left her enchanted with the beauty and serenity of the place, so at odds with the conditions of her own childhood, and stirred by her meeting with the handsome, fortyish widower who owns it. She assumes, correctly, that she was barred from this paradise by "the old woman," Mrs. Iveson. Pettie begins making daily train trips to spy on the Davenant household and exact revenge...
...spotless table next to a box filled with hundreds of empty beer cans all conscientiously rinsed and crushed (when crankers decide to clean house, they clean house), Jennifer and her roommates smoke and jabber while clock hands turn from 3 to 4 to 5. The oldest roommate--his fortyish, gaunt face so stiff and lifeless it looks taxidermied--veers from a fond recollection of a camping trip to a paranoid rant about "hidden cameras" and warnings to TIME's photographer and reporter that "we know how to protect ourselves in this house...
...greatest, but he is certainly the freshest, most confident new voice in the theater to come along in years. Beauty Queen, part of a trilogy set in the western Irish county of Galway, is a dark, beautifully crafted comedy-drama about the spiteful relationship between a fortyish spinster and her aged, acid-tongued mother, who thwarts the daughter's one chance at love. What makes the play so startling is its mix of old-fashioned dramaturgy--the plot hinges on an undelivered letter--and the chilling, unsentimental way in which it shows the casual cruelty people wield against each other...