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Brooke Astor turns 94 this week. And what better present than to have a poem (four lines, rhyming couplets, iambic tetrameter) published for the first time in the New Yorker last week? The philanthropic nonagenarian told the New York Times that she has been writing verse since she was six. The New Yorker is publishing only three of her works, so there's plenty of material left. Does Modern Maturity take poetry...
Albee calls this woman "A," and in the first act we see her, a rich and somewhat senile nonagenarian, ensconced in her room with its elegant furnishings and silver tea service. She is joined by B, her hired companion, and C, the young woman lawyer who is trying to straighten out the elderly woman's finances. In the second act, B and C become earlier incarnations of A, and the three--now all one woman, at different stages of her life--open up to each other, and to the audience. It is a brilliant coup de theatre, which first presents...
...pounding was relentless. As the latest Clinton Administration nominee sat before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week, Senators took their turns delivering the blows. First, South Carolina's nonagenarian Strom Thurmond took up the cudgel, blustering about what he called "a compelling prima facie case that ((Morton Halperin)) is unsuited for any position in the Pentagon" and calling him a man of "deeply flawed judgment" who has failed "to create an impression of reliability or trustworthiness." Then John McCain of Arizona spoke of "profoundly disturbing questions about Halperin's judgment, his credibility, and his suitability to hold a position...
Coronary bypass operations for patients over 80 generally produce bills twice as high as those for younger people, says Robert Jones, professor of surgery at North Carolina's Duke University. Jones, who heads a federally financed project to establish guidelines for cardiovascular surgery, explains that people like the nonagenarian of Clinton's anecdote stay in the hospital longer than younger people because of age-related surgical complications and the lack of people to care for them when they go home. As a result, says Jones, the pressure to turn down such high-risk, expensive patients "will be more than subtle...
...nonagenarian looks back: "In the summer of 1902 I came real close to getting in serious trouble with a married woman, but I had a fight with my conscience and my conscience won, and what's the result? I had two wives, good, Christian women, and I can't hardly remember what either of them looked like, but I can remember the face on that woman so clear it hurts...