Word: fortyishness
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...Saturday afternoon sun of a somber January, the black granite walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial were warm, almost animate to the touch. A blond teenage girl with a paper dove in her hair from an antiwar rally stood near two fortyish men talking softly about a bungled mortar attack a generation and half a world away. Two helicopters whirred overhead, the sound both jarring and fitting. Odd how certain names leaped to the eye and touched the heart. Irvin W. Prosser Jr., Zygmunt Kowalewski, Sherl K. Bonnett. Strangers all, so there were no images of them as soldiers...
...very fact of homosexuality is largely ignored. Three competitors are in their opening month or two: Details, a bratty, street- talking melange aimed at men in their 20s and early 30s; Men's Life, a smirky yet sentimental blend of National Lampoon and the Saturday Evening Post directed at fortyish suburban baby boomers; and M Inc., a merger of two prestigious but money-losing forerunners, Manhattan, inc. and M, that is meant, like its predecessors, for the well heeled and silver templed...
...have ceased; boilers and generators are out of order for days. The combined effect of economic sanctions, emigrant flight and international isolation is not "strangling" the country; rather, those actions are demoralizing and destabilizing Iraq, and rendering the place increasingly dysfunctional. In the hotel elevator, a prosperous businessman, fortyish and due to report for army duty in the morning, vows he will flee. "I have a brother-in-law in Chicago," he confides...
...Friday Trinidad's main television station broadcast a startling announcement: "The government has been overthrown." The author of the statement was Abu Bakr, the fortyish leader of a small Muslim group widely ^ regarded in Trinidad as violent outlaws. Bakr's 250 followers had blown up the police station in the capital of Port-of-Spain, seized the TV station and taken the country's Prime Minister and Cabinet hostage in the Parliament building. Declaring that he did not recognize "man's law" but only the "law of Allah," Bakr said he had seized power "to stop the incest, robbery...
...novel, Any Woman's Blues, Erica Jong has at last created a heroine even she couldn't love. Leila Sand is blond, randy and famous -- as a painter of "vaginal art." She is fortyish but still, she keeps assuring us, attractive: "I don't look worse than a 22-year-old -- to some men I look better." And like all Jong alter egos, she is looking for love in all the wrong places. The result is the bitter lament of a successful woman sexually obsessed with a much younger man. Leila keeps citing Colette and Cheri, but Cher comes more...