Sergey Aleksandrovich ( Сергей Александрович ), the narrator, is summoned from Saint Petersburg to the estate of his uncle, Colonel Yegor Ilich Rostanev ( Егор Ильич Ростанев ), and finds that a middle-aged charlatan named Foma Fomich Opiskin ( Фома Фомич Опискин ) has swindled the nobles around him into believing that he is virtuous despite behavior that is passive aggressive, selfish, and spiteful.

The story concerns a middle-aged middle manager, Reggie Perrin, who is driven to bizarre behaviour by the pointlessness of his job at Sunshine Desserts.

* Arthur Carlson ( Gordon Jump ), occasionally called the " Big Guy ", is the middle-aged general manager, whose main qualification for the job is that his mother, a business tycoon, is the owner of the station.

* Arthur Carlson ( Gordon Jump ), occasionally called the " Big Guy ," is the middle-aged general manager, whose main qualification for the job is that his business tycoon mother is the owner.

Working at the shop are Ladisov Sipos, a middle-aged salesman with a family ; teenage delivery boy Arpad Laszlo ; sexy and gullible thirty-something Ilona Ritter ; Steven Kodaly, a suave ladies ' man ; and Georg Nowack, the shy manager.

Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy's Polaris missile.

alt = A dark-haired, bearded, middle-aged man holding documents is seated among seven other men.

The scene in which, returning to her apartment, Bardot's character is harangued in the elevator by a middle-aged cleaning lady calling her offensive names, was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid-20th century.

Less common are bara — larger, often heavily muscled and sometimes hairy males, the yaoi counterpart of the " bear " in gay pornography — as well as oyaji ( meaning " daddy " or " uncle "), featuring middle-aged and elderly men ; these types are mainly found in material aimed at gay men, which may be called bara or ' men's love ' ( ML ), and is considered to be distinct from yaoi.

alt = A photograph of a middle-aged Japanese man who is giving a lecture.

In his earliest appearances, Luthor is shown as a middle-aged man with a full head of red hair.

This shows that the labour force is indeed largely made up of middle-aged workers.

Le Carré's middle-class George Smiley is a middle-aged spy burdened with a faithless, upper-class wife who publicly cuckolds him for sport.

This audience is mostly male, middle-aged and conservative.

The play highlights the struggle of a middle-aged woman who is unable to walk because of an ailment.

However, Thomas was at the time a young man who spent only a few days ( or weeks at most ) with Lawrence in the field – unlike Bentley, who is depicted as a cynical middle-aged Chicago newspaperman who is present during the whole of Lawrence's later campaigns.

Lester Burnham ( Kevin Spacey ) is a middle-aged magazine writer who despises his job.

The script states that Kirk is 49, but Shatner was unsure about being specific about Kirk's age because he was hesitant to portray a middle-aged version of himself.

The novel tells the story of a middle-aged man named Harry Haller who is beset with reflections on his being ill-suited for the world of " everybody ", the regular people.

American novelist Thomas Berger created a modern version of the story in his 1994 novel Robert Crews, in which the protagonist is a middle-aged alcoholic who survives a plane crash at a rural lake, and eventually encounters his " Friday ," a young woman fleeing an abusive marriage.

In astronomy, the Pleiades ( or ) or Seven Sisters ( Messier object 45 or M45 ), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus.

Despite being a middle-aged, twice-divorced career woman, Edina is reliant upon the support of her daughter, Saffron, a secondary school pupil ( and later university student ) whose constant care for her mother has left her a bitter cynic.

Babbitt ( 1922 ), by Sinclair Lewis ( 1885 – 1951 ), satirizes the American bourgeois George Follansbee Babbitt, a middle-aged realtor, booster, and joiner in the Midwestern city of Zenith, who — despite being unimaginative, self-important, and hopelessly conformist and middle-class — is aware that there must be more to life than money and the consumption of the best things that money can buy.

David, the narrator of the frame tale, is a middle-aged Manhattan lawyer.

Comic Book Guy is based on " every comic-bookstore guy in America " and represents a stereotypical middle-aged comic-book collector.

Although middle-aged, he is shown several times to still have excellent combat skills.

The narrator is one or all of a group of adolescent boys who obsessed over the Lisbon girls from a distance in their youth, and now, as middle-aged men, continue to try to piece together the girls ' story.

* Mrs. Judith Beasley, also known as " The Tasteful Lady ", is a somewhat prudish and prissy, conservatively dressed middle-aged apolitical woman who dispenses advice on gracious living and a life of elegance.

Elwood P. Dowd ( Stewart ) is a middle-aged, amiable ( and somewhat eccentric ) individual whose best friend is an invisible 6 ' 3. 5 " tall rabbit named Harvey.

On the instigation of a Gomard ( possibly the brother of her supposed father ), Jeanne was then employed as a companion ( dame de compagnie ) to an elderly widow, Madame de la Garde, but was sent away when her youth and beauty began to meddle in the marital affairs of both la Garde's two somewhat middle-aged sons.

The series involves Laura Dalton, played by Dench, a single, middle-aged translator who is somewhat socially inept.

She has performed in nearly 90 movies and 55 TV episodes, usually typecast as a middle-aged, somewhat stubborn and dimwitted Midwesterner.

Howard ( the thick middle-aged man ) was looking at her.

Faisal, far from being the middle-aged man depicted, was in reality in his early thirties at the time of the revolt.

Pantalone's character has transcended through the decades ; " were we to seek his present-day counterpart we should not be far wrong in thinking of a middle-aged businessman, wealthy and well esteemed, apt at times to dally with ladies full of doubtful virtue, at other times as apt to show himself the devoted father anxious to protect a young son or puzzled by the actions of a daughter he does not understand ".

Turner recounted how he was introduced to sex at the age of six by a middle-aged lady called Miss Boozie.

There are more recent findings that show that differences in male and female aggression appear at about two years of age, though the differences in aggression are more consistent in middle-aged children and adolescence.

The family's story is narrated at the opening and closing of each episode by the middle-aged John-Boy ( Richard Thomas ), the oldest son who becomes a journalist and novelist.

He does not make a convincing middle-aged, overweight, suburban-dwelling, low-brow insurance salesman, and the book is at its best when Orwell is ' out-of-character ', speaking in a voice which is recognisably his rather than an imitation of ' Fatty ' Bowling's.

It is considered a remarkable first novel, because of the way in which the youthful Pym-who began the book while a student at Oxford before the Second World War-imagined herself into the situation of a middle-aged spinster, living with her sister in the country.

Almost uniquely in superhero comics at the time, the JSA members during this period were portrayed as middle-aged — and often wiser — versions of their younger, contemporary counterparts.

A middle-aged man ( Luis Buñuel ) sharpens his razor at his balcony door and tests the razor on his thumb.

* Gloria LeRoy as Mildred " Boom-Boom " Turner, a buxom, middle-aged secretary at the plant where Archie works.

* Diabetes mellitus similar but not identical to human Type I ( insulin deficiency ): The disease occurs in middle-aged Samoyeds, the mean age at diagnosis is seven years.

They reduced the complicated pondering of an American woman's first go at love with a middle-aged merchant of Venice to pleasingly elemental terms.

" The film was a major success, grossing US $ 105 million at the North American box office, and it developed a cult following among middle-aged women.

The play relates the story of two middle-aged former lovers who meet again briefly at a diner after a long estrangement ; they are essentially the same characters as Bud and Deanie, though the names are " Bus " and " Jackie ".

Sullivan's fourth film, Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, features Barbara Hershey as a middle-aged Anne looking back on her early years and Hannah Endicott-Douglas as a young Anne before arriving at Green Gables.

In 1934, Carroll Todd, aka Toddy, a middle-aged gay performer at Chez Lui in Paris, sees Labisse, the club owner, auditioning a frail, impoverished soprano, Victoria Grant.