Word: octogenarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York, no Los Angeles. This year the World Series came around to St. Louis and Milwaukee, interchangeably dreary, cold and beery cities in the Central time zone, not without style, just without cynicism. At games in St. Louis, August A. Busch Jr., the octogenarian brewer who owns the Cardinals, was delivered to his box seat each day aboard a beer wagon pulled by eight clomping Clydesdales. Able to be thrilled by a buckboard, the people of St. Louis were also not too sophisticated to sing Hello, Redbirds, Well Hello, Redbirds along with Carol Channing or clap in rhythm every time...
...Francesco Rosi's fine, gently stated but ultimately very moving film. Summoned home for the funeral of their mother, they must confront one another, the past from which they were once so eager to escape and, above all, the example of their father (played by the great French octogenarian, Charles Vanel). The old man exemplifies not just a different "life-style" but an entirely different, and doubtless doomed, way of being. Slowed, but not bowed, by age and grief, he is a farmer whose rhythms have been set by the wheel of the sun, the turn of the earth...
...good on his original promise to support a democratic regime that offers basic liberties to all citizens. "That would at least allow for the possibility of a reconciliation among the different tendencies, and for a government that could govern," says Banisadr. There is little chance, however, of the stubborn octogenarian's backing down, nor is there any individual or group that could unite the divided Iranians. The army is generally considered the most cohesive force in the country, but it is hopelessly bogged down in the border war with Iraq, now a year old, and its ranks are split...
...reaction you don't usually feel when acting students do scenes, you know. It was so clinical you could hardly look at it. It was like looking into somebody's life." Lewis also marvels at Meryl's range. He recalls her flying about in a wheelchair, playing a crazy, octogenarian translator of Russian literature in a Christopher Durang play. "It was really the most imaginative farcical performance I've ever seen...
...works in Madrid's Tiépolo Gallery and the official designation of a square, dominated by a huge Miró ceramic mural, as Plaza Joan Miró. "This signifies recognition of a lifetime's hard, sincere, steady work," exulted the spry octogenarian. "Yes," sighed his wife, Doña Pilar Juncosa, "if only now he would slow down...