Senegal. Dakar. Women read the Koran and pray during Friday prayer at the Great Mosque. Most of them are past middle age. (PAR50938)

Article: `Middle Age: A Romance,' by Joyce Carol Oates; ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 26, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... scene. Now here we go again. "Middle Age," Oates' sweet, hyperventilating ... the specifics of his complicated past. "Middle Age" is the famously hyper-creative ... this new novel, as in life, middle age is a time for trying to make sense ...

Article: Beyond middle age
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 7, 1996 ;     361 words ... ... plays he plans to produce. Henderson, who doesn't reveal his age but admits to being a senior, thinks people past middle age have been ignored by the arts. He hopes The Stage Society will change that. The company's first production is ...

Article: How the hip skip out on middle age
The Boston Globe;  December 30, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Forever Cool: How to Skip Middle Age," reads a blurb on the cover of ... Bazaar. The story inside, "No More Middle Age" by Lynn Snowden, comes accompanied ... list of "Things That Just Scream `Middle Age,' " to wit: "Any journalist ...

Article: Middle age comes late, say women. (Opinion).(Brief ...
Marketing to Women: Addressing Women and Women's Sensibilities;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Women believe middle age comes later than men think it does ... women (26%) as men (13%) say middle age begins at 55 for women, and 30% of ... versus 18% of men) say men reach middle age at 55. Men are considerably less generous ...

Article: Has middle age ceased to exist? Clubbing, dating, ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 9, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... prescriptions, I have the sense that middle age, as both a concept and a reality, has ... being old. Not so long ago, so-called middle-age spread, and some of the health problems ... from hers). And although adventure and middle age weren't mutually exclusive to a previous ...

Refusing middle age.(Critical Essay)
ANQ;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... twentieth-century American literature, how middle age became a site of cultural aggression ... popular fictions by Gertrude Atherton, middle age is represented as the stuff of jokes ... linked to catastrophe. Even today, middle age represents a crisis to be resolved ...

Transcript: AMERICANS CRUISING THROUGH MIDDLE AGE
World News Tonight with Peter Jennings;  February 16, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... JENNINGS: There was a landmark study published today on middle age. What life is like during middle age, to be even more precise. For so many people, the popular image of middle age is the mid-life crisis -- menopause for women, all sorts ...