eighty-fourth

In his eighty-fourth year, Ringo handles the vocals with impressive skill, modulating his drawl for maximum effect.

This past December, as what would have been my mother’s eighty-fourth birthday approached, I kept dreaming of death.

Four years later, she won a seat in the Georgia House, representing the Eighty-fourth District, which encompassed part of the east side of Atlanta.

“But I can’t see what they’d want with us. I mean to say, what particular good is an eighty-fourth world to them? And not, I take it, a very clever world for we don’t have Star Ships and so on, as they all do.”

Shostakovich, only twenty-nine years old, was a rising star among Soviet composers, and his show was a hit; when Stalin came to see it, it was enjoying its eighty-fourth performance at the Bolshoi, after a successful première in Leningrad in 1934, and appearances in several European and American cities.