Word: septuagenarian
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...Israel. They also serve a second purpose: putting pressure on Lebanon to police the Palestinians. But the main victims over the years have not been the mobile commandos but the Lebanese families who live in the border villages. Among the victims of last week's raids was the septuagenarian mukhtar (headman) of Hasbaya; he was the 137th civilian to be killed so far. In addition, 402 Lebanese have been wounded and 91 have been captured and forcibly taken across the border into Israel for interrogation...
...special-interest group to exploit. The elderly are often the last minority that Americans get around to noticing, and until recently movie executives were no exception. But it seems the strange success of Harold and Maude, a spotty movie about a teenage boy in love with a septuagenarian woman, has revealed the market's potential...
...svelte Septuagenarian Marlene Dietrich, the show must go on, if not the preshow party. Shoving aside a waiting wheelchair at London's Heathrow Airport, the statuesque star hobbled into England last week, still feeling the effects of a leg injury suffered earlier this year. Princess Margaret ordered up a royal reception at Grosvenor House, where Dietrich was scheduled to make her first West End cabaret appearance in almost 20 years. Despite a guest list that included Director Franco Zeffirelli and Actor Christopher Lee, the evening's main attraction canceled out by phone. "I haven...
...American photography, Ansel Adams is the Old Man of the Mountain: a grizzle-bearded septuagenarian, wrinkled and piercing of eye, toting his tripod through the redwoods. It was almost 60 years ago that Adams, a teenage music student from San Francisco, took a box Brownie with him on a vacation in the Yosemite Valley and started clicking away at its prodigious crags. Since then he has become one of the most respected photographers and teachers in America, laden with honors and pursued by collectors. (His own selection of his work, with a foreword by Pulitzer Prizewinner Wallace Stegner, will...
...title is somewhat misleading. This is not a serious study of how the Nazi leaders were influenced by their credulous trust in occultism, but the autobiography of a septuagenarian astrologer who occasionally was summoned to deliver prophecies. He is a man of such solemnity about his craft that he is capable of writing a sequence of sentences like this: "Not long afterward the Nazis were to take over completely. These circumstances had a profound effect on my astrological practice...