“An ad put out by the pro-Democrat group MoveOn shows a fiftyish man who lost his job to a foreign worker.”

“Well he was less doppelganger than fiftyish chubby bloke with wild white hair who wouldn''t have reached the end of Maggie May without attracting Simon Cowell''s buzzer.”

“Balzac would have done well here, but I was more indulgent, thinking of things like the impending death of the bourgeoisie, and of pasts these fiftyish people all bore inside.”