As the movie gathers momentum, we see that Enid faces a delicate predicament, a crisis much more real and familiar than the usual senior-prom agonies.
More than that, the smaller than usual senior Catholic parliamentary profile may force him down a more deliberate extra-parliamentary route than has been the Catholic norm.
"It is not business as usual," a senior Pentagon official said.
"We're looking on the other side, and everything looks as usual," a senior official said.
The last British governor, then plain Mr Patten, a Conservative politician rather than, as usual, a senior diplomat, seemed to agree.
It was found that those surgeons stitching to their favourite tunes were better and faster than those operating without music, with the procedure taking 10 per cent less time than usual for senior residents and 8 per cent less time for junior residents.
"The company wants to send the message that it's business as usual," Steven Dashevsky, senior oil analyst at the Aton brokerage firm in Moscow, said of the stock buyback, worth $3.7 billion.
The silence of many prominent Democrats reflects their conclusion that the president is on treacherous political ground and that attacking him would permit the White House to dismiss the criticism as partisan politics-as-usual, a senior Democratic aide said.
For the Spakes, the usual options for seniors who need care — assisted living, nursing homes, moving in with children — were unattractive or too expensive.
Faced with the usual options for senior housing and elder care, some older adults are inventing their own grassroots versions — do-it-yourself senior living that's friendlier, more autonomous and less expensive.
