Word: octogenarian
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...been a dozen years since he last danced, but Fred Astaire, who turned 85 last week, still cuts one of the most stylish silhouettes in show business. Or any business for that matter. Invited to a birthday dinner party by his legendary dance partner Ginger Rogers, 72, the natty octogenarian thanked "Ging" but opted for a quiet evening at home, explaining that turning 85 "is special enough." He still reads scripts, pursues his acting career, feels well and says, "I couldn't ask for anything more." Well, there is one thing: "I would like to have been able...
...launched a new, $8 million television ad campaign. The first 30-second spot features three elderly ladies who have walked into a fictional "Home of the Big Bun" hamburger outlet and become outraged by the microscopic size of the patty on a gargantuan, fluffy bun. One woman, played by Octogenarian Clara Peller, asks irately, "Where's the beef?" The implied answer: Wendy's quarter-pound burgers have the beef. In a second spot, Peller uses a telephone to put the inevitable question to the owner of "Big Bun," who is ensconced on his yacht...
...fibers and patches of disintegrated nerve-cell branches. Because Alzheimer's patient was relatively young, AD was at first considered a disease of middle age; similar symptoms in elderly people were simply regarded as a natural consequence of aging. Today this view has been discarded. Even in an octogenarian, severe mental confusion "is a disease, not a natural decline," says (Catherine Bick, acting deputy director of the National Institute of Neurological Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS...
...double-entendres could still raise a grimace, and with the help of his blessed stunt team, Bond would doubtless eel his way through tight spots until he was older than yesterday. By then he would be played by Anthony Andrews or Michael Jackson, and his adversary would be an octogenarian Norman Bates or Rocky Balboa. And the women would still be young and beautiful...
Mondale, who had endorsed Daley in the primary, was part of a parade of national Democratic leaders who went to Chicago to appeal for party unity and cultivate black voters. Congressman Claude Pepper of Florida, the octogenarian hero of the elderly, also was booed by a white audience last week. Douglas Fraser, the president of the United Auto Workers, confronted the race issue headon. Said he: "This election would have been over the day after the primary except that Harold Washington is black." Ohio Senator John Glenn said the Chicago campaign showed that "we're at the hardest part...