Word: septuagenarian
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...restaurant, Asha's, in Dubai in 2002. (She has said that if she didn't make it as a singer she would have been a cook.) These days, Bhosle's modus operandi is still pretty much a game of hide-and-sing, but on Dec. 9 the graceful septuagenarian will step out from behind the silver screen to give a performance in Belgium, at the Centre for Fine Arts (Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles) in Brussels. The concert is part of a festival of Indian art and culture organized by bozar with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations...
...restaurant, Asha's, in Dubai in 2002. (She has said that if she didn't make it as a singer she would have been a cook.) These days, Bhosle's modus operandi is still pretty much a game of hide-and-sing, but on Dec. 9 the graceful septuagenarian will step out from behind the silver screen to give a performance in Belgium, at the Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels...
Trading on South Beach, Miami's precinct of risqué indulgence, Hyatt's historic Hotel Victor on Ocean Drive aims to make its mark as a haven for vintage hedonism. Later this summer, the newly renovated septuagenarian property plans to sell a package of amenities that features Prohibition-era liquor and Cuban cigars dating to 1937 that are available nowhere else in the region, says Carlos Sarmiento, the Victor's general manager. "We wanted to do something that would distinguish us," he says...
...PROPRIETARY ABOUT THEIR ETHNICITIES THESE DAYS. ARE YOU WORRIED THAT PEOPLE WON'T ACCEPT A BOOK ABOUT AN ARAB AMERICAN COMING FROM YOU? It's a question of whether or not you're going to be scared by all this ethnic awareness and possessiveness into writing about nothing but septuagenarian, Eastern-born Lutherans. You get boxed in by your own fear of making a misstep. I'd rather risk having various minorities complain. You have to risk it. It's part of the fun of it. Unless you're willing to stretch, you're going to limit yourself...
Consider my septuagenarian father-in-law Exhibit A in the battle against spyware- the malicious software that operates on a computer without the user's informed consent. This past holiday season, I emailed him a link to the Apple Store, so that he could buy his beloved son an iTunes gift card. But when he clicked on the legitimate link, his computer took him to another website, where he forked over $40 for a $15 card. (He did actually get the card, but at an illegitimate $25 premium; Apple ships for free...