Word: sixtyish
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...first-person novel were not difficult enough, Larry McMurtry narrates his new Hollywood story in three first-person voices. In Book 1, Joe Percy, a sixtyish screenwriter and seducer of bored young Bel Air wives, speaks of his affection for Director Jill Peel. Book 2 collects the machismo sputterings of Producer Owen Oarson, who moves in as Jill's great physical love. Book 3 is written in Jill's voice-a cool meditation on her life, her men, and their inscrutable ways...
...junior est employee named George comes onstage to demonstrate "the personality profile"-or how to experience people we have never met. George settles into a trance to experience a New Jersey housewife who is not in the group but is an acquaintance of Carol's, a sixtyish woman who is. Does the housewife like playing cards? "Yes," says George, clawing the air with both hands for inspiration. He sees a happy card game with a bowl of peanuts on the table. "No," says Carol, "she never plays cards." George gets about 80% of the questions wrong...
Take the circumstances of As the World Turns, the quintessential "coffee table" drama that is all talk. The tent-pole characters?good, decent people on whom a plot may safely be hung ?are Chris Hughes, a lawyer, and his wife Nancy. They are a sixtyish couple living out their days in trauma. Their...
...Hall, a sixtyish-looking man who wears conservative suits, has been with the school for 35 years, serving as director for the past 20. The tall, craggy director wears thick glasses and walks with a slight stoop. He stresses that there is no relation between his name and the school's, which was drawn from the name of the building in which it was originally founded. Hall downplays his own role within the school, claiming that the board of trustees makes all the important decisions. He says that the board has three members, but declines to identify them...
Died. Mary Penelope Hillyard, sixtyish, owner of Blarney Castle and the stone embedded in its parapet that is said to bestow the gift of persuasive eloquence-in other words, blarney-on whoever kisses it; after accidentally setting her clothes on fire with a cigarette; in County Cork, Ireland. Mrs. Hillyard inherited the 15th century castle in 1951 from her uncle, who stipulated in his will that the fabled stone must never be sold. When an American chain-store millionaire offered to buy it in 1968, she turned the offer down, presumably with eloquence...