Word: octogenarian
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Although she hasn't ever won a substantial jackpot (the jackpots can reach up to $2,300 in a given month) the spunky octogenarian continues to play because "it gives me a night out with my girlfriends." In fact, it is precisely this social lure to which many of the players are attracted. For most, this is their only night out on the town, and thus their sole opportunity to see old friends and make new acquaintances. Moreover, the attraction to gambling can't be forgotten as a catalyst for the deluge of people spilling into the cafeteria each week...
South African President Nelson Mandela's visit to Harvard to receive a rare non-Commencement honorary degree is just one of a number of activities that will have the octogenarian statesman crisscrossing the east coast and Canada...
...Mandela's remarrying would confirm a curious trend among his country's recent rulers: Octogenarian former president P.W. Botha recently remarried, while the country's last white ruler, F.W. De Klerk, 61, plans to marry his new love once his divorce comes through. Needless to add, South Africa was among the first countries to approve Viagra...
CAPE TOWN: Church bombing isn?t necessarily a human rights violation, former South African president P.W. Botha told a court hearing today. Botha?s contempt-of-court trial heard evidence that the octogenarian hardliner had ordered the August 1988 bombing of the headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, in which 21 people were injured. Botha is unfazed by the charges: ?He?s never denied ordering the bombing,? says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. ?He?s never admitted it either. In his own inimitable way, he?s saying he did it because the building was the headquarters...
...mouth, nor does tiresome prostitute humor ("No, no. Hit me, then the blowjob"). Richard Benjamin having sex with Julia Louis-Drey-fus in front of a blind woman isn't funny, nor does it provide the viewer with any insights into the film's characters. Overlong vignettes about murderous, octogenarian Jewish cannibals are not funny, and Woody certainly could have communicated his character's conflicted feelings regarding his religion in a classier (or at least funnier...