Meanwhile, I have clung to the scores of elderly hand-embroidered tablecloths, linen sheets, my mother's old cardigans and frocks, my father's waistcoat, prayer shawl and hat in a little velvet bag, which I've kept for 20 years and still blub over.
Young hands and elderly hands, all with varnished nails; hands touching tablets and lamps, hands in a mirror.
Something with so much electrifying youth, passion and excitement, it will sink the Fortunoff gravy boats and make Cartier watches wring their elderly hands in dismay.
Mr. Rivoli has spent the past 15 years capturing timeless moments in contemporary America — the solemn christenings and squirmy first haircuts, the town meetings and patriotic parades, the youthful shenanigans and the mature reverence symbolized by elderly hands resting on a well-thumbed bible.
Claridge feels that the tight amalgam of faces ... and even the crepey skin on elderly hands, which have become the objects of worship, push the theme over the edge from idealistic tolerance into gooey sentiment, where human differences seem caught up in a magical moment of dispensation from the Light.
Ted Pollack SPRING IN THE PARK A lark entertains those who pass by the band shell As young lovers populate the benches Sharing their lunch with a squirrel The elderly walk hand in hand Soaking up the lengthening rays of the sun Only a few in this tableau will notice Some drops of ice Giving them a sly wink From the top of one Extremely sleepy bud.
In one of those drawers, Ms. Wilcox located an image of an elderly, gnarled hand resting on the lime-green fabric of a dress.
The killers were predictably acquitted by an all-white jury, but not before an elderly field hand named Mose Wright stunned white Mississippi by taking the stand and pointing out the white man who had kidnapped Till at gunpoint three days before the boy's body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River.
