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Hogarthian characters abounded in the theater. There was Abel, the flamboyant homosexual who would hoot at pulchritudinous customers; Norma the manager, who had the face of a hatchet and the demeanor of Torquemada; Katie, poor, sweet, knocked-up Katie; vivacious Gilda, a fortyish woman of Italian extraction who had been raised in Ethiopia and who now devoted herself to the music and careers of heavy metal bands; baby-faced George, an aspiring actor who claimed to have had a meeting with Steven Bochco's people; and Autumn, as delicate a ditz as ever broke a man's heart...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Cinema Purgatorio | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

Newt Gingrich was taking questions at a town meeting in his suburban-Atlanta district last January, when a fortyish woman rose and identified herself as a tax lawyer. Before anyone could hiss, she allowed, "I'll go out and learn how to make cabinets for a living if you will eliminate the current tax law. It's disgraceful the way my clients use it to avoid taxation, and I hate it. And I hate the irs. The whole system is corrupt." The crowd of more than 600 erupted in applause and shouts of approval. So Gingrich asked some questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POINT OF NO RETURN | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

...regulars, mostly twentyish to fortyish," adds Ken E. Goodman, manager of the East Coast Grill. "We've got a board in the kitchen with the name of the regulars on it--our star list. We send them free food, we know where they sit, who they are. [Cambridge mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72] is a regular customer--he digs the collard greens. We always send him a free dessert or something just to acknowledge his presence. It's such a small restaurant that I can see everybody from the kitchen...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Inman: Diverse, Friendly | 12/14/1994 | See Source »

...wish that Robert James Waller had taken up a different hobby, ham radio or UFOs maybe, instead of writing itty-bitty novels. Because after The Bridges of Madison County hit the best-seller lists, with its weepy tale of 52-year-old photographer Robert Kincaid and fortyish Iowa farm wife Francesca Johnson meeting and spending four days in forbidden aerobics, then 25 years in noble renunciation, all privacy was gone. Lush-hipped, high-mileage beauties with roses in their teeth and not too much cellulite stared at you moist-eyed from behind self-service gas pumps and supermarket Chardonnay displays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Mushmeister Returns | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

Hutch is absent from one of the weekend's most stimulating events -- the Fishbowl, a parlor game in which a group of 28 men and 24 women assemble to ask one another sexually oriented questions. During the session, a fortyish woman wins applause with the sort of inspired reasoning one would expect here: "It's not the size of the wand," she announces in response to no question, "it's the magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Hey Einstein, Let's Jacuzzi! | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

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