Barring all-out nuclear war or a catastrophic meteor collision, a substantial minority of you will get a toe in the door of the next century – a very wrinkled, arthritic toe, but the same toe you're wearing now.
Sean O'Faolain considered no one spared: "We see the prostitute, the beastly peasant, the timid bourgeois, the civil servant – his favourite subjects – in an unpitying light that exposes their wrinkled faces, their painted gums, their frayed cuffs, their shifty eyes, their hearts that have dried like peas".
The ruin lay on its face, so there was no possibility of seeing those "wrinkled lips" and that "sneer of cold command".
The glacier is a dirty brown colour, wrinkled with crevasses.
Flamboyant as ever despite his wrinkled face and rambling speech, he is increasingly fawned upon.Since the passing of President Omar Bongo of Gabon in June, Mr Qaddafi has no near rival as the longest-serving African or Arab leader, and longevity seems to feed his ambition.
Second, Mr Abe is at last pursuing schemes of such breadth that they touch on nearly every area of the economy that demands change.The wrinkled societyJapan has changed in the 20 years of stagnation.
ANOTHER economic mess looms on the horizon one with a great wrinkled visage.
"She had lifted up her Indios jersey to flash Monterrey's fans, who graded her breasts with chants of 'chicharrón!' a stadium snack of wrinkled and fried pork .There are sharp comparisons, too, between events on and off the pitch.
When Lucas Cranach the Elder was 74, he painted a famous picture of the miraculous spring, with wrinkled old women going in at one end and young beauties coming out at the other.
When one's wardrobe consists exclusively of crumpled linen and wrinkled cotton, what to wear becomes a dilemma (solution: borrow a big scarf and some safety pins; a large Mexican shawl covers all sins).
And government planners say that resolving it could raise annual GDP growth by a full percentage point.In this section Bridging the gaps Get used to it Baby steps ReprintsColombia's wrinkled topography has always made transport difficult.
