Word: mid-40s
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...years right after 1913 were an anxious time for Matisse. Born in 1869, he entered his mid-40s more visible than ever in the art world, but with work that to the French was still an eyesore. Though for the first time he was making enough money from his art to buy his family a comfortable house in a Paris suburb, much of his income derived from a single Russian patron, Sergei Shchukin, a wealthy merchant willing to fill his drawing room with Matisse's most difficult pictures while Moscow society snickered. (See the top 10 art exhibitions...
...sitting in front of my TV, at home, for the sixth consecutive hour, watching “The Wire.” Bubbles, one of the show’s most engaging characters, was a lifelong crack addict until his mid-40s, when a harrowing experience inspires him to slowly and painfully turn his life around and become clean. As he finds a steady job and reconnects with his kin, I could not help but express my happiness to my entire uninterested family, who could not understand why I was spending my entire break watching this crushingly depressing show...
...fact that she's never been interested in sleeping with him, but he raises a fair point. Pippa and Herb recently moved from New York to a cloistered Connecticut retirement community, and the high point of Pippa's day is monitoring Herb's blood pressure. Most women in their mid-40s would find this existence pretty dreary. There must be something beyond Pippa's cheery...
Today, many Wall Streeters decamping for dormitory life are in their mid-40s and are leaving top jobs at their firms. Even in an industry where early retirement is common, Fleming and other bankers are likely walking away from seven-figure paychecks. Undoubtedly, too, some will return...
...some patients, however, the chances are slim, despite the best technology. "Some of our patients are in their mid-40s and don't have good embryos," says Westphal. "We know that the implantation rate is so low that even if you transplanted many embryos [for them], they're unlikely to get pregnant...