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• n  someone whose age is in the seventies

• In American photography, Ansel Adams is the Old Man of the Mountain: a grizzle-bearded septuagenarian, wrinkled and piercing of eye, toting his tripod through the redwoods.
• More than two centuries after his death, people are still trying to figure out how a paunchy, balding, bifocaled septuagenarian managed to get French ladies in a flutter.
• A septuagenarian funnyman adapts one of his old movies for the stage, writes the songs himself, indulges all his vulgar-vaudevillian comic impulses, and shows the Broadway pros how .

News & Articles

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• Will Live-Streams Impact the Summer Music-Festival Market?
  When Paul McCartney shuffled on to the stage at this year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, 80,000 fans gawked from the trampled fields of Manchester, Tennessee. But only a scant percentage actually could see the septuagenarian Beatle...
  June 26, 2013 - Spin
• Resuming the Search for a Pioneering Plane Off a Remote Island
  A retired septuagenarian has committed the past five years to finding a plane that carried two French aviators who were trying to make the first flight between Paris and New York in 1927.
  June 24, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Robert Scheer in Newsday
  And Web magazine TruthDig columnist Robert Scheer, who is a few months older than McCain, asked if "our septuagenarian president would be fully focused" in a crisis.
• Bono in Jamaica Observer
  But Bono reported happily that "a couple of eccentric septuagenarian British Christians ruined my shtick, my reproach" when they advocated successfully that the year 2000, the Jubilee Year, should see the cancellation of debts of the world's...