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Article: At 80, playwright Arthur Miller is still going strong.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- January 3, 1996
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NEW YORK _ ``My eyes are not as good as they were,'' says Arthur Miller, fixing them on you like night-vision cameras all the same, ``but that's been true for a decade. And I can't be standing on the tennis court for three hours, but I'm impatient with that anyway. I'm not interested in that anymore. My body is telling me, `Forget that!'''
Chatting in the East Side apartment he still maintains _ an outpost in the city he departed decades ago for the 380-acre Connecticut farm where he lives and writes _ the playwright at 80 submits a short list of minor concessions to age.
You hear the words, still tuned to the gravelly voice of a Brooklyn accent, but you ...