The toothless and infirm get shipped off to a horse sanctuary in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
It is the story of a man born into a wizened and infirm body who gets younger as he ages.
If one wanted to be downbeat (which we do not) it would be easy to draw an analogy the condition of financial institutions in Japan, banks, securities firm, and insurance companies, and the society in general: aging, increasingly frail and infirm, and shrinking at a painfully slow pace.
When granny has become so infirm that she can no longer make a cup of tea, she may be nudged into a care home.
The worry now is that a bonanza of oil will weaken an already infirm resolve to drill deeper into the economy's structural problems.
Certainly, when someone elderly or infirm writes bizarre instructions as with Williams it invites a fight over whether the instructions are valid.
The sullen French actor and longtime Carax collaborator Denis Lavant, trained as an acrobat, enters a stretch limo, only to emerge as an elderly and infirm woman begging along the Seine.
The 85-year-old pope announced the bombshell in Latin during a meeting of Vatican cardinals, surprising even his closest collaborators, even though he had said in the past a pope could step down if he became too old or infirm to do the job.
The same goes for robotic spoons that make it easier for the infirm to feed themselves, power suits that help lift heavy grocery bags, and a variety of machines that watch the house, vacuum the carpet and so on.
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The ANC has been bussing in elderly and infirm people to make sure they vote, but she and her friend did not take the offer of a lift.
Of course it may well be the case that there is no alternative to the old and infirm running nations in which the average age keeps falling to the 20s and lower, but it is a debate that will not go away.
Once a forceful feminist who brooked no argument, Ms. Choucair is too old at 97 and too infirm to fully appreciate that, at last, the international recognition she so deserved and craved has been accorded her.
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