Word: octogenarians
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...Road nonetheless offered some good acting and a grown-up theme: how an elderly minister and his wife adjust to the prospect of sitting out the rest of their lives. Onetime Glamour Boy Franchot Tone, 51, donned whiskers and did his husky-voiced best to play a spry octogenarian fighting the years. Cathleen Nesbitt was fine as his gentle wife. But Playwright John Vlahos never crystallized in a dramatic moment just why the minister surrendered to a tranquil life and moved off to a home for the aged where his friends "sit like potted plants." As a result, Vlahos...
...wanted to burn them as decadent, and later building a storage room in the cellar of the Russenhaus, where the paintings remained until they were delivered to the Munich gallery. Last week, beyond one tight-lipped admission ("He was very aristocratic"), she refused to talk about Kandinsky. A brittle octogenarian with startlingly candid eyes and a gentle face, Gabriele still lives in the Russenhaus. The wooden staircase was decorated long ago by the man whose pictures she refuses to look at, and every time she passes, her eyes fall upon his jolly yellow and violet riders galloping gaily among...
...eccentric old (81) Mrs. Edith Alice Morrell. The cause, according to a death certificate duly filed by her physician, was "cerebral thrombosis," i.e., a stroke. In three decades of practice at Eastbourne, the physician, kindly, pudgy Dr. John Bodkin Adams, had eased the end for many an octogenarian patient, and Mrs. Morrell's timely passing caused scarcely a ripple at the bridge tables. The old lady was cremated. Her son gave Dr. Adams her old Rolls-Royce and a valuable chest of family silver as a token of gratitude for his care, and there, but for some skeptics...
Kroll frankly admits that "the nude studies might have shocked the ladies if they had been alive" (only one of them is: handsome, octogenarian Mrs. De Courcy Wright Thorn of Baltimore), but he points out, "That way I could capture the movement of the body better, the fall of the legs and breasts." For Kroll, who holds that "the human body is the most beautiful thing in the world," painting clothes on the nudes was the reluctant, if necessary, next step. The finished painting shows half an instep, no ankle. The result turned the bacchanal into a proper tea party...
...transmutations, even of identity, are continuous, and Malone has at least three names before he is done in. As the novel begins, he is lying in a hospital room which is sometimes an asylum cell. He may be 100 years old, though "I call myself an octogenarian," and he has the ageless "sickness unto death" of total despair. In his past life he has apparently been a street cleaner and may have been a murderer, but his only present concern is to be "neither hot nor cold any more, I shall be tepid, I shall die tepid...