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old man
noun as in father or husband
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The play premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London, with Housman played as an old man by John Wood and as a young man by Paul Rhys.
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The old man would become the menacing force behind many of Shepard’s plays.
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"I'm an old man, I'm a broken man," he says.
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Now he’s just an angry old man who calls reporters “piggy.”
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The painting showed an old man in cracked spectacles standing beside a lame horse, in the midst of a homestead that had burned to the ground, so that only the smoking ruins remained.
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