fortyish

In 1948, when she was 23, her hair was streaked with gray so she could play a fortyish newspaper publisher with a yen for Spencer Tracy in “State of the Union.”

The Honorable Stephen Wilson, in explaining the case, tells the fortyish prospective jurors that Elon Musk “posted a series of tweets on his Twitter” very sincerely, a statement that had been tediously ironed out with both sets of lawyers the day before.

Last week, joined by a pastor from Fort Worth, Texas, our host spent a pleasant fortyish minutes moseying around the question of “mainstream celebrity Christian culture and how the fashion and brand-name stuff fits in.”

The fortyish pair have been bickering since we met them.

Fortyish and stably settled in Staten Island, Lisa has evidently done a lot right with her life: she’s a dedicated, well-liked teacher with a secure, longstanding job, is married to a decent, loving man and has raised two reasonably bright, reasonably well-adjusted children to near-adulthood.