Word: geezer
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VISIT MORE THAN ONCE. Don't take a sales agent's word for it; visit residents and ask about the things that matter to you. While you're at it, take note of their age. The last thing you want is to end up being the lone kid (or geezer) on the block...
There was the class of '95--Greta Van Susteren, Fred Goldman, Marcia Clark (reporting for Entertainment Tonight)--with thicker makeup and deeper laugh lines. There was O.J., menacing and pathetic on the leaked audiotape, a 60-year-old man allegedly staging a geezer commando raid to literally recover his past. The reminiscences, the gray hair, the reduced stakes--it's as if you had reunited the Greatest Generation in 1957 to liberate Luxembourg...
...going to grade us and his stories weren't going to help us pass our board exams. It showed; the general surgery team fidgeted and rocked as he spoke to us at early Saturday morning "guest-attending rounds." He was a little stooped and white-haired, but no geezer. He wasn't one of our Ivy league professors of surgery, specialists in their elite yet narrow fields, but rather a 70-year-old doctor who had gone to our medical school before there was penicillin. He'd lived out his career someplace in Western New York - someplace where...
...first walked into a chain bookstore in the U.S. and saw all the top sellers at as much as 40% off retail, I thought, We're dead. Sure enough, a few years later, we closed our doors. I sense the same thing in the print news. If an old geezer like me gets most of my news off the Internet, what about 20- and 30-year-olds? It is so much more convenient to scan various world newspapers online, and I'm sure the younger crowd today just doesn't have the patience or tolerance to mess with newspapers...
...Hackman's work is subtly alive to all the complexities of his character and his situation, and his path is strewn with good supporting actors. One cannot help offering a chortling cheer to a movie that throws demographic caution to the wind in order to celebrate geezer power. --By Richard Schickel