As Vice President Dick Cheney put it, "old doctrines of security do not apply".
The publishing company, however, passed on the track, saying it was too, as Ms. Birch put it, "old-fashioned" and "dated" — even though Ms. Boyle's forthcoming record features a "duet" with Elvis Presley.
High point: Confounding those who thought she was doomed to play, as she put it, "old scrubs, chavs or slappers" by rising to the challenge of playing what is known as the female Hamlet, Hedda Gabler.
And another thing: Mr. Ford's shorter hem lengths may look all right on younger women, but combined with the style of the clothes, they will prematurely advance a woman over 45 into, as Tom Wolfe once put it, old babehood.
As William Crawley, a Belfast-born broadcaster, puts it, old-time religion faces mounting competition from "a new Northern Ireland which cares more about human rights than the ten commandments, and feels uncomfortable with theocracy".
Q: Why is Hollywood so "barbaric", as Charlotte Rampling put it, towards older women?
And to put it bluntly, older children, particularly in sibling groups, are not as instantly appealing as a baby.
She was, as she put it, "an older, single, transgender woman," all of which are "greater than the sum of their parts" and "shape each other".
But as Rajdeep Sardesai, of NDTV, a television news channel, cuttingly put it, the old order changeth, yielding place to the older.
