Word: gent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might be a gruff old gent with a streak of eccentricity and a taste for adventure, while the other is younger, more level-headed and a bit uptight. Or if one is an overenthusiastic amateur, the other is a world-weary pro with a hard veneer of cynicism. They seem to bicker constantly, these mismatched TV couples, yet they share a grudging respect and affection--sometimes even a wedding ring. They can be found all over the prime-time dial these days, their names often linked by racy ampersands: Simon & Simon, Hardcastle & McCormick, Kate & Allie, Cagney & Lacey, MacGruder & Loud...
...attract some strange commands from passing natives. An English-speaking Austrian finally told me that I had bought a woman's umbrella. Since I couldn't tell the difference between the one he was carrying and the one I had bought, I asked him to explain the distinction. The gent showed me the slightly different shapes of the two handles. Later I compared it to some American men's bumpershoots, and several of them had very similar handles to my American umbrella. The fact that the distinction between men's and women's outfits is becoming more subtle does...
...Quentin for robbing stagecoaches. By the time he was released, some 30 years later, Wells Fargo had sold its horses and invested in railroads, and the movies had been invented in order to fill idle minds with devilish ideas. Watching The Great Train Robbery in 1903, the old gent perceives a profitable way to enliven his sunset years. All he needs is horses, a few accomplices and, of course, some trains to stick...
...bear," with a shock of dark, tumbling hair. Finally, "Gerry" as he is referred to, is missing the tip of the little finger of his left hand. Such are the telltale hints dropped by Actress Shirley MacLaine, 49, in her recent autobiography Out on a Limb, describing a gent she once had an affair with. Her enigmatic references to Gerry have kicked off, in the land of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, a full-blown, real-life mystery. Labor Leader Michael Foot, 69. denied any role in the affair. So did David Owen, 44, Tony Benn, 58, and Peter Shore...
...author of Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography knew him only during the last 20 years of his life. But Sue Davidson Lowe is his grandniece and thus was privy, as she grew up, to glimpses of an artist that outsiders seldom saw. He was Uncle Al to her, an old gent who liked chocolate ice cream cones and miniature golf, and who used summers at the Stieglitz family compound in Lake George, N.Y., to relax and flirt innocently with young female relatives. She knew him as a character before she bumped into his legend: "It was not until 1932 or 1933, when...