Word: oldsters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speaker in My Country, the first song, is an oldster reminiscing about the dead old days of watching an antiseptic world on black-and-white TV ("We got comedy, tragedy/Everything from A to B"); he might be Pleasantville's sitcom dad, now neck high in self-pity. The next tune, Shame, is in the head of a rich coot ranting about the young woman (and the gun) he needs to be happy. The third song, I'm Dead (but I Don't Know It), is the plaint of a pop singer who, after 30 years, has "nothing left...
...daughter's game. Within a block of her house she has hit 37 m.p.h., taking stop signs as suggestions rather than law. She has a lot on her mind. "I'm not even thinking of other cars," Anne admits cheerfully as she lays on the horn. An oldster in an econo-box ahead of her has made the near fatal mistake of slowing at an intersection with no stop sign or traffic light. Anne swears and peels off around...
Speaking of Times Square, don't rule it out. Rock-'n'-oldster Dick Clark, who will turn 70 in 1999, plans to be on hand, reporting the action for television audiences. "That would be nice," he says. "It would indicate I'm still ambulatory." Tama Starr, president of Artkraft Strauss, the company that has been building and lowering the New Year's Eve ball in Times Square since 1908, promises that the millennium ball will be bigger and brighter and more spectacular than ever. "There will be more strobe lights and maybe a hologram," she says. "Lots of dazzle...