Word: sixtyish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Donald Regan never knew the name of the "Friend," as Nancy Reagan referred to her astrologer. But TIME learned last week that she is Nob Hill Socialite Joan Quigley, sixtyish, a Vassar graduate who has written three books on astrology (see story on page...
Thin and well-coiffed, Quigley, sixtyish, is not unlike many of the First Lady's California friends. The daughters of John B. Quigley, a San Francisco hotelier and prominent Republican, Joan and her sister Ruth grew up in a penthouse suite overlooking Union Square. Although both were noted for their beauty, neither married...
...identify the woman, saying Nancy Reagan referred to her only as "Friend." But Time magazine, which carried excerpts of the book in its new issue, said, "She is Nob Hill Socialite Joan Quigley, sixtyish, a Vassar graduate who has written three books on astrology...
...ropes four nights a week. Mohammed Talbi, a Tunisian villager educated in France, works for the Arid Land Institute in North Africa. Ron Lister arrived in Arizona three weeks before the workshop began with $40 in his pocket and a flat tire, and had never cowboyed. Mary Caldwell, sixtyish, has whittled a piece of wood into a horse during the week, and says she does all the riding on her ranch while her husband stays at home. Savory's Center for Holistic Resource Management also works with the U.N., the Navajo nation, the countries of Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Mexico, Zimbabwe...
Wolfe will most likely be denounced for creating comic characters who accurately reflect familiar and self-important fixtures in New York life. At the top of the heap are "social X rays," rumpless women of a certain age who believe one cannot be too rich or too thin. Sixtyish men of this stratum are frequently accompanied by "lemon tarts," sleek, young blonds. Sherman McCoy is a decent well-bred sort, neither more nor less lustful than most confident 38-year-old males and particularly amusing when he gives facts and figures about how one can go broke in Manhattan...