Sentences with phrase «of octogenarian»

Answer: Sometimes political enemies will secretly plant marijuana in the yards of octogenarian mayors to try to get them in trouble.

It is really just an elaborate seconding of my octogenarian friend, Mond from Oz at # 11 above, who demonstrates what every society except ours has known, that among those seeking wisdom throughout their lives, it generally increases with age.)

Atlanta art dealer William Arnett, who has championed Dial for some 25 years, likely owns the largest cache of the octogenarian's output.

As far as I'm aware Cy Twombly never painted outdoor murals, but seeing the exhibition of his last paintings that just opened at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, I thought about bursts of unyielding energy, so characteristic of this octogenarian artist in the last years of his life.

Takis: Selected Works: A rare West Coast exhibition of the octogenarian Greek artist Panagiotis Vassailakis, a self - taught pioneer of works interrogating the boundaries between art and technology.

And then there's the recently announced solo show of the octogenarian New York school painter Ron Gorchov, which will appear at Schnabel's West Village apartment, and opens in November.

From young radical to arguably Australia's greatest living artist, the NGV retrospective of the octogenarian's work spans the intimate, the nonconformist and the majestic

This Tate Modern retrospective of octogenarian American performance art, film and video pioneer Joan Jonas is the largest showing of her work in the UK to date, including films and installations from the 1960s to the present day.

Homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth follow up their Monkeewrench (2003) adventure with an investigation into a string of octogenarian murders — and some of the victims were Holocaust survivors.

A second storyline is set in modern - day Florence as Inspector Alessandro Pallioti investigates the bizarre murders of octogenarian Resistance heroes.

Aside from Jean - Luc Godard, it's hard to think of an octogenarian auteur who remains as vital and intellectually playful as 84 - year - old documentary master Frederick Wiseman.

Michael Haneke's latest story of an octogenarian nursing his dying wife is brave and beautiful, but beware if you're over the age of 60

Friends for decades and with Oscars, Baftas and Oliviers coming out of their octogenarian ears (Plowright, of course, was married to the man who gave the Oliviers their name), this trove of national treasures provide a torrent of mischief, gossip, swearing, recitations, singing and reminiscence.

The latest works of this octogenarian artist are scintillating miracles of eye - teasing optical magic.

Like Starlet, in which a 21 - year - old woman begins to search for and later depend upon the friendship of an octogenarian widow, the gifts offered by Drinking Buddies are found in its small moments, in the secret looks between friends and its resistance to the melodrama of in its emotional story.

That's quite apart from the fact of an octogenarian woman being «beaten» by a 23 year old.

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival Golden Eye Award for documentary and the Toronto International Film Festival Documentary People's Choice Award, Faces Places creates an unexpected pairing of the octogenarian French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda (The Gleaners & I) and the much younger street artist JR..

(In Spanish with subtitles) The Monastery (Unrated) Faith - based documentary, filmed over six - years, chronicles the efforts of octogenarian Jorgen Lauersen Vig, a spiritually - oriented virgin, to convert his Danish castle into a monastery for an order of Russian nuns led by the headstrong Sister Ambrosija.

They cast their nets worldwide on the Web and soon the sweet tones of a modem heralded the beginning of their octogenarian affair.

First, rumors have constantly been raising the possibility of octogenarian Congressman Charlie Rangel — who is recovering from a serious back injury — passing his torch to Assemblyman Keith Wright, the head of the Manhattan's Democratic Party organization.

What I wish I knew when I was your age: A group of octogenarians lecture students on their biggest regrets in life.

Those old, informed and astute enough to know the antecedents of the club of Octogenarians suddenly re-inventing themselves and launching back to reckoning in recent times would not ignore the antics of Chief Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo, Theophilus Danjuma and Ibrahim Babangida.

Not exact matches

«I liked the idea of trying something different,» the octogenarian said.

She had, however, dismissed suggestions that the octogenarian media mogul and his sons would not be «fit and proper» owners in the light of the sexual harassment scandals at Fox.

An octogenarian's renaissance, a reinvention of the laptop and a bunch of irate birds — just a few examples of what grips the public's pop - culture consciousness.

The octogenarian titan of workplace furniture — who continues to chair the board of Global Group, the company he founded in 1966 — has seen a lot of trends come and go, which makes for robust demand.

Obviously the octogenarian philosopher mistook the dubious claims of a few fringe figures (like Teilhard de Chardin) for influential trends in the post-conciliar Church, imagining them an ominous aspect of what the progressive victory had let loose.

Emboldened by the pope's overt approval of his regime, made manifest in their meeting in Rome this past spring, the octogenarian dictator boasted: «We have founded an equitable society with social justice and extensive access to culture, attached to traditions and to the most advanced ideas of Cuba, Latin America, the Caribbean and the world.»

A charming collection of new poems by a distinguished octogenarian poet charmed still to be alive, charmed still to arise in the morning and look out at the world, charmed still to write new poems.

«People love my cinnamon and raisin bread recipe because it's got a very soft, tender crumb,» says Alvin Brensing, the octogenarian miller in charge of producing Hudson Cream Flour, a premium all - purpose flour from Stafford County, Kansas.

A couple of gallant octogenarians named Jock Hutchison and Fred McLeod, champions of an earlier, more graceful era, stepped stiffly down the first fairway in pursuit of their drives, and the 28th Masters championship was under way.

And in Doncaster, England, near - octogenarian Robert Sterling Clark wept unabashed when his horse Never Say Die, a Kentucky - bred son of Nasrullah, won the ancient St. Leger before a crowd of 200,000.

That might of been when Dwayne Wade's old ass tried to pull Justin Anderson into the octogenarian gates of South Florida hell, the door of which I assume opens by the Heat baseline.

While most people don't have the influence of a hip and sexy grandma, a growing number of hobbyists are adopting pastimes usually associated with the octogenarian set.

John Timpson, who hosted Today in the»70s and»80s, once condemned the output of earlier, more frothy incarnations as entirely consisting of «eccentric octogenarians, prize pumpkins and folk who ate lightbulbs and spiders».

While Saudi's system of absolute monarchy means the King is legally the highest authority in the Kingdom, bin Salman has been granted unprecedented control of the state's domestic and foreign policies by his ailing, octogenarian father, ostensibly making him the real power behind the throne.

It became evident that without abdication states risked a succession of extremely elderly kings and queens, as the crown was passed from centenarian to octogenarian.

The Provost of the Cathedral, St. Peters Anglican Church, Ibadan, Venerable Wale Adebiyi and representatives of Chief Imam of Ibadanland Sheik Abubakri Abdulganiy Agbotomokekere prayed for the soul of the departed octogenarian.

Earlier this year Rupert Murdoch's questioning by Mr Watson during his grilling before the culture, media and sport committee led to the octogenarian media magnate conceding he was enduring «the most humble day of my life».

Regrettably, you and your octogenarian cabal plus a group of people that lost the election last two years can not repent.

In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President said he joined all former leaders of Nigeria, professional colleagues and friends of the Ekwueme family in celebrating the octogenarian.

The octogenarian leader blamed the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust on Jewish...

Top Republicans, mindful of the hazards of relying on several octogenarians and a person under federal indictment to keep their razor - thin control, seems happy to have him.

The 59 year - old is not as suave, eloquent or decorated as Congressman Charlie Rangel, the octogenarian Harlem lawmaker still old enough to be Mr. Espaillat's father, but after decades in the relative political wilderness, the Dominican - American immigrant is on the verge of driving Mr. Rangel out of office.

The octogenarian said Mrs Osei's remark has the tendency to create a kind of impression that does not augur well for the confidence Ghanaians will have in the Commission.

What the researchers found especially astonishing is that this was true even in octogenarians with two copies of the APOE - 4 gene, which is present in about 90 percent of 80 - year - olds with Alzheimer's.

The octogenarian Nobel laureate, world renowned for proposing the existence of the particle known as the Higgs boson, thinks not, The Guardian reports.

He slides one of them onto a curved piece of plastic called a Sock Aid that has two ropes attached, a device octogenarians commonly use.

Today, at the 43rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR), held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, Kazunori Ikebe, from Osaka University, Japan, will present a research study titled «Cognitive Function and Oral Perception in Independently - living Octogenarians.»

These results suggest that the decline of cognitive function was related to tactile and taste perceptions in independently - living octogenarians without dementia.