Margalit Fox and "parts were considerably younger"

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Thu Aug 16 03:13:57 UTC 2012


A correspondent and movie buff says to me that the line "She was 90,
although parts of her were considerably younger" can be found in
"Mama Mia".  Can anyone pick that up?

If so, is Fox's sin as great as Zakaria's?  Do we have to ask the New
York Times to prepend a correction?

Joel

At 8/14/2012 05:37 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> From Margalit Fox's obituary of Helen Gurley Brown on the front page
>of today's New York Times:
>
>"She was 90, although parts of her were considerably younger."*
>
>Worthy of Dorothy?  (Other lines in Fox's appreciation are nearly as
>good.  Although Fox alleges that Brown coined "mouseburger"; I see in
>the OED that the Daily Times-News of Burlington, N.C. had it 11
>years earlier.)
>
>Joel
>
>* Later listed as "restoration work" -- "a nose job, breast
>augmentation, face-lifts, eye-lifts and injections of silicone into
>her face to keep wrinkles at bay, among other procedures."
>
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