Word: octogenarian
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...Henson, director of the Texas Political Project at the University of Texas, calls machine politicians, many of whom are backing Clinton. Those generational differences represent a "cellular shift among Democrats," Henson says. That was illustrated Wednesday when President Bill Clinton stood side by side at a Beaumont rally with octogenarian former Congressman Jack Brooks. Beaumont is one of the working class areas of East Texas Bill Clinton has been working for his wife. But Obama is now "leading a movement," Stein says, a "child's crusade" that has developed momentum...
...filled out the Academy ballots this year. A good portion of the membership is old enough to call John McCain "Kid." Did the old-timers really go for the ultra-violent No Country and Blood enough to give those two films the most nominations? I know of some octogenarian members who'd let their grandchildren do the voting, under the theory that the job should be done by people who'd actually seen the movies. But this is, by and large, a very Generation Y, double-frappuccino list. The main exceptions are Atonement, an old-fashioned period romance with...
...great-grandson of a diamond prospector, a tapeworm, and Edward Said have in common? They each figure as a central character in one of the first three stories of “Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black,” the newest collection of short fiction from prolific octogenarian author and Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. The motley assembly of characters is only one aspect of the absence of internal logic that characterizes Gordimer’s most recent collection, an amalgam of 13 stories that previously appeared in periodicals ranging from “The New Yorker?...
...endless Mafia trial, was under-praised and under-attended; I hope the same fate does not overtake Devil. It is, like quite a few Lumet pictures, rather small in scale, easy to overlook. But I think it is time to gather around a director who has embraced his octogenarian bleakness and sing his praises. Ultimately, I think you'll laugh a lot at what he has wrought here - but only well after the movie is over and the full scale of its perversity settles into your bones...
...Italy's democratic insitutions was an illuminating look into the seldom-mentioned dark side of democracy [Aug. 13]. However, I was saddened to see that the story made no mention of a possible remedy. Perhaps the Italians themselves have not developed one. With the political system dominated by octogenarian bureaucrats and Berlusconi- like operators, would it be out of the question for Italy to restore the monarchy? With the exception of the U.S., the most successful democracies, and those least prone to such institutional dystrophy, are monarchies, from the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand to the Scandinavian nations...