Word: octogenarian
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...world, in other words, the same way they saw her through it, by ogling her while judging. And she gave ample reason to judge--the stripping, the pills, the reality show, the sexcapades, the conveniently timed marriage to the about-to-burst piñata that was ailing octogenarian billionaire J. Howard Marshall II. She could be in the dictionary under the word tawdry. She became famous for appealing to our worst instincts and was ruined by indulging our worst appetites...
DIED. Anna Nicole Smith, 39, former Playboy model, widow of an octogenarian tycoon, mother of a newborn, and tabloid celebrity; of unknown causes, after collapsing in her hotel room in Hollywood, Fla. (see page...
Retirement can really rock. Octogenarian Tony Bennett last week announced a 20-city U.S. tour titled The Best Is Yet to Come, starting early next year and sponsored exclusively by AARP...
...Translation problems, moreover, are not merely confined to stuffy classrooms; a week into my stay I found myself saddled with a large one rather closer to home—that is, with the woman living in the room next to mine. Grandma is the octogenarian mother of the Argentine woman who houses and feeds me during the semester. Her middle toe was sawn off a few weeks ago, and while she recuperates she’s staying with us. In two months of living two meters apart, we have never introduced ourselves. I am only known...
...Last Letters from Hav, her first novel, was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1985. The volume sowed confusion among Morris' fans, many of whom wrote to request directions and ask if a visa were necessary. "Only one single correspondent," she writes in an epilogue to Hav, "an octogenarian lady in Iowa, saw my little book as allegory." The new allegory helpfully reprints the entire 200-odd-page original and proceeds smoothly to its slightly shorter sequel, subtitled Hav of the Myrmidons, a reference to the state's new cultlike leadership. "I hadn't planned to do another novel...