Just do an Internet search for "elderly person shoots home invaders." I especially like the ones in which our brilliant current crop of burglars lock the resident
oldster "in the gun closet."
Was that a tragic suicide attempt, age 34, in room 22, or an obdurate
oldster of 96 who was too mean to die?
Farm Collector is teaching an
oldster how very lucky she is to have been exposed to farm life.
Mocking all our
oldster fears to a trendy electroclash beat, James Murphy whines, "I'm losing my edge, to the kids, from France and from London." His lyrics emulate the more-knowledge able than-thou pretension of music-fan boys-perhaps a little too well.
King graduated to gay stock characters like Silly Tragic Flamer Who Gets Bashed in It and Lonely but Helpful Asexual
Oldster in Insomnia.
Some had done other kinds of work--one
oldster had once worked in coal mines; another, a handsome young man, had been a ticket-taker at the Race Course Cinema in Delhi.
Like many of her generation and stature, Modleski has turned to personal/autobiographical criticism, here in the playful and cheeky voice of the hoary
oldster. Her introductory essay, "Feminist Criticism Today: Notes from Jurassic Park," resolutely adopts the persona of the feminist dinosaur, but the tone throughout the book is not nearly as grizzled as the figure would suggest.
If I join, am I taking a significant step -- leaving middle age and become an
oldster, albeit a young
oldster?.
"Sir," said the clerk, "that brand's on special if you buy a case." "Young lady," the
oldster said, "at my age I don't even buy green bananas!"
Konwicki's protagonist is a survivor of these ambiguous fratricidal struggles, a former partisan who bore the pseudonym
Oldster. Now the war is ended, he has withdrawn into himself for soul-searching and self-torment.
Rather than being a galactic
oldster, B2 0902 + 34 may well be a protogalaxy in formation.
Elton's album isn't even in the top 50, and McCartney's album barely broke 20,000 this week, and there wasn't a better
oldster hype than for these two projects.
Rodney, 18 If Katy Perry in her prime couldn't hang on to him I find it hard to believe an
oldster like Halliwell can.
His eyes were grey and large, and in a fine Irish brogue the tiny
oldster issued a grave warning to Annabel: "If you tell one living soul about me or Red and Blue, you''ll never see your mother again!" Annabel couldn''t budge an inch while her eyes were locked onto the piercing eyes of the little man, and this frightened her, because she couldn''t even move her lungs to inhale and felt as if she was choking.
He was twice nominated for best actor - as the cantankerous
oldster in Kotch (directed in 1971 by Lemmon) and as the feuding vaudeville partner of George Burns in The Sunshine Boys in 1975.
