Word: methuselan
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...huge birthday cake, a 70-year-old babushka dressed scantily in tight green leather and swinging a green leather purse danced in the center of the bar. She was not part of the planned birthday festivities, however: a Russian film-maker was shooting a scene in which the Methuselan sex kitten was the main attraction. The people at the bar loved it and the babushka started to get into it. "The guy shooting the film warned the bartenders not to give her too much to drink," Melissa said, "because she would want to take her clothes off, too." (Apparently, this...
...refused surgery, says her physician, Victor Lebre, because "she thinks it's normal at 120 not to see.") But there is no question that her wit is intact. Asked what kind of future she expects, Calment didn't miss a beat: "A very short one." As for her Methuselan achievement, "It's not impressive at all," she insisted. "It's natural to grow...
...living were born. The late Major Bowes launched it on radio, and his top aide, Ted Mack, brought it to television in 1948. It is still the top-rated show in its time slot (5:30 p.m., E.D.T.), pulling 12,700,000 viewers a week. Last week, in a Methuselan milestone, its "wheel of fortune" went spinning for the 1,500th time...
...crony of Mark Twain's and studied relativity with Einstein before asking in 1904 to become Shaw's biographer, so impressed The Beard with his erudition (G.B.S. called him "the Grand Panjandrum") that he produced not one but three full-scale lives of the Methuselan playwright; of a heart ailment; in Chapel Hill...
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