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I was definitely the oldest member of the audience, sitting in a theater amongst rowdy young people.
Best is the woodsman/survivalist guy leaving his young daughters at home and telling the oldest one what to do if anyone comes by the house while he's gone, and walking her through the steps to deal with strangers if they try to get into the house.
A foster Mother has a couple of young Sisters join her foster family, and the boy next door becomes friendly with the oldest girl.
The most touching scene to me was when their fourth child was born and Ben, who was the oldest of the four boys, including the newborn, got to see him before he died.
The closest to a multidimensional character in the movie is the oldest brother Chris.
I saw the oldest boy wearing Nikes and jeans in one scene, yet when they finally left the house they were wearing clothes that have been outdated 50 years earlier than 1987 when the film was made.
Both Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth portrayed their characters really well and as corny as it sounds I think that if Jane Austen was alive today she would be very pleased with the film(as well as being a living miracle as the worlds oldest lady!).
I've been spending a lot of time lately going through and watching all of Chaplin's oldest short comedies that he made for Keystone and Essanay, and with only a few left before I get into the 1920s I decided to jump ahead and watch this one, which is reportedly the last true silent film that Chaplin made, since there were elements of City Lights and especially Modern Times that were clearly moving toward the sound era.
Even the gooniest, most degenerate, oldest, or stupidest males are stronger and smarter than the females.
By contrast, the world’s oldest democracy, the US, has yet to elect a president who is not white, male, and Christian.
By 2030, Germany, Italy, Japan and the Netherlands will be the oldest countries, with over one quarter of their populations elderly.
The Rolling Jubilee is a timely reminder of the continuing relevance of one of the oldest laws of social life.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – Latin America’s oldest guerilla group – formed alliances with narcotics cartels.
While the emperor is merely the “symbol of the state” under Japan’s US-imposed postwar constitution, he retains significant influence, owing to Japanese veneration of the imperial dynasty – the world’s oldest continuous hereditary monarchy, the origins of which can be traced to 660 BC.
If elected, he would be the oldest incoming president.
Last November, Rajo Devi, a 70-year-old Indian woman, became the world’s oldest mother, thanks to IVF.
Appeasing SerbiaThis month has been a bad one for the cause of human rights in Europe, as Serbia was allowed to begin its six-month presidency of the Council of Europe, the Continent’s oldest political body.
The US has been the world’s largest economy and oldest democracy, a haven for immigrants, and the land of the American Dream – the promise that anyone can be anything if they work hard enough.
This was how the oldest central banks, the Swedish Riksbank (1668) and the Bank of England (1694), came into being.
The oldest distinction of homo sapiens - ritual burial of the dead - is disappearing.
Throughout the Cold War, the world’s oldest democracy and its largest were essentially estranged.
And while Switzerland may be the world’s oldest tax haven, it is not the most advantageous place to park one’s money.
But an uncomfortable question lingers: How is it possible for the world’s most powerful country and its oldest continuous democracy to exhibit a state of political discourse that is more reminiscent of a failed African state?
The country is host to some of the world’s oldest Christian communities, which, though much smaller than they once were, retain undisputed historic rights to the region.
The country produced the world’s first known practitioner, Sushruta, and is the site where archaeologists have found the world’s oldest surgical instruments (dating from the first century).
No one knows exactly when Santos decided to seek new negotiations with Latin America’s oldest – and one of its most vicious – guerrilla groups; nor do any but his closest aides know how many meetings have already taken place, where and when, or what happened.
Venezuela’s oldest private television channel, RCTV, was arbitrarily removed from the public airwaves in 2007, and has since been driven off cable TV.
Barring real progress on these challenges, one of the world’s oldest known viruses will continue to afflict humans and animals alike.
The world’s oldest humanitarian organization was “outraged” by the findings, it said.
Not only does Italy have the EU’s oldest population after Germany, with 1.5 people over 65 for every one person under 15; its fertility rate, 1.35 children per woman, is also one of the world’s lowest, about on par with Japan.
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