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Paul Simon was affectionate in "Old Friends," when he mused "how terribly strange to be 70".
It must feel "terribly strange to be 70", to borrow your line from "Bookends"?
It must be terribly strange not to have her reading things, I say.
These images hew to the Freudian description of the uncanny: a sense that something once familiar has become terribly strange.
And they will finally know first-hand if Mr. Simon got it right when he spoke in "Old Friends" about "how terribly strange to be 70".
"Can you imagine us years from today/ Sharing a park bench quietly/ How terribly strange to be 70," laments Paul Simon on his enduring ode to companionship "Old Friends/Bookends", and the insightful singer reached a ripe 70 on Friday.
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It was all rather strange, but also terribly funny.
I find it incredibly romantic, terribly sad, and in some strange moral way, it's a magnificent tribute to her behaviour to her husband: leaving this incredible attraction she has for this man and going back to her kind husband.
This may be because they opened the same week as King Kong, or are extraordinarily strange, or are terribly depressing, or because the demands for films about gringos transporting the festering corpses of illegal immigrants across the Rio Grande on the back of a horse just so the deceased can get a decent home town burial back in Mexico has never been smaller.
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