Inspired by his find, Makoto established a "healthy centenarian" research group known as the Okinawa Centenarian Study.
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A centenarian sits by his Chinese chessboard, awaiting an opponent.
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She had never tested this method on a centenarian, however.
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Britain's increasing centenarian population also ensures that she is kept busy.
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She is a national champion, a former activist and a centenarian.
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As he approaches centenarian status, Mr. Vallas hears a clock ticking.
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So, what's the answer to making marriage work after becoming a centenarian?
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A self-proclaimed "Centenarian for Hillary" can't stop smiling about casting her vote.
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Tips from a centenarian and others on the road to a long life.
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Kirk's family has gotten together quite a few times recently with the centenarian.
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The Georgia centenarian recently celebrated her birthday with a party hosted by the carrier.
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"Can I get my same booth?" the centenarian asked after learning of the news.
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We hereby award this man a gold medal for excellence in centenarian birthday celebrations.
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Centenarian males were often missing a specific snippet of DNA in their GHR gene.
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Everyone loves a good night in, but no one appreciates it more than a centenarian.
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Now there's a new centenarian in town with another hot tip for extending the years.
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It's astonishing that these sharks are well into their centenarian years before they hit puberty.
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But as the canine equivalent of a centenarian, Eddie finally has eased up on me.
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The almost-centenarian asked her daughter, Roberta Schultz Benor, to capture the moment with a photo.
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A centenarian is sharing her secret to longevity, and this time it's a different, boozier item.
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You may want to move to Acciaroli, Italy, where one in 10 residents is a centenarian.
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Signore is not the only centenarian who's offered advice for a long life relating to staying single.
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I love sweet potatoes, but I know that there is no guarantee that I'll become a centenarian.
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But most days are routine, interrupted by the occasional news media inquiry seeking out this centenarian barber.
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It had been quiet enough to hear the birds in the centenarian plane trees shading the square.
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He said he had been inspired by Fauja Singh, supposedly the first centenarian to complete a marathon.
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Jessie Gallan, another centenarian who died at 109 in 2015, started working at age 13, as a milkmaid.
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But it was an even older showbiz institution who stole the show: soon-to-be-centenarian Kirk Douglas.
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The near-centenarian requested to pull the handle that released the giant American flag himself, according to WJXX.
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"Over here—put in potato—close—strong," a centenarian named Anastasia instructed, pinching dumplings shut with practiced rhythm.
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There is admittedly little competition in the centenarian age group, and Ms. Hawkins was largely competing against herself.
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The centenarian told the Guardian in 2017 that he never expected to live as long as he did.
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Not just because she was a centenarian experiencing joy — she danced, she explained, because she was experiencing black history.
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Instead, experts are keen to lure people towards the unprocessed, natural foods eaten daily by these centenarian-filled communities.
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While it was revolutionary to see a nude centenarian on network television, Mickey's revulsion was somewhat hard to read.
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The centenarian was so excited, in fact, that she broke out a few dance moves for America's first couple.
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Langer's photo series features side-by-side portraits of his subjects as a young adult and as a centenarian.
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And yet, given what a centenarian has seen, you know that he, too, will pass, and we will survive.
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The centenarian made headlines in 2016 when she shimmied with then President and first lady Barack and Michelle Obama.
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Three days later, Singh, became what was said to be the first centenarian to complete the Toronto Waterfront Marathon.
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A warlord, a novelist, a diplomat, a centenarian and other exceptional women our overseas correspondents wrote about in 2017.
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In 2015, the Seattle centenarian pushed an average of 42 per month out of the door and into the sky.
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An Arizona centenarian witnessed the birth of her great-great-grandson, exactly 100 years to the day of her birth.
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The centenarian dished out advice for the kids, before being surprised with a cake and special jersey bearing her age.
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Meet KBG84, a band like no other: They're all over 80 and count a centenarian as their most senior member.
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But I think it's her attitude, including her ability to laugh at herself, that has helped her achieve centenarian status.
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Most interestingly, a centenarian woman who asks to be identified only as Selma shares memories of surviving the Armenian genocide.
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And centenarian voters like Rose Orbach, 513, who voted near her home in Bayside, Queens, in her 251th presidential election.
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To make a centenarian happy, all you had to do was ask them to dip into their store of accumulated wisdom.
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Howard wore a wedding gown and Cameron sported a suit and cowboy hat to recite their vows in front of the centenarian.
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Still sharp, the centenarian cracked, "I would do it again, if I was called to active duty -- but chances are they'll never."
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PARIS (Reuters) - French cyclist Robert Marchand is retiring at the age of 106, a friend of the bike-mad centenarian has announced.
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I mean, judging by your body-mods, that last-gen suit and your buggy social skills, I'm getting a strong centenarian signal.
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Older children are different; he recalled a centenarian who told him the story of her own abandonment and adoption into a loving home.
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But despite her energy and positivity at the White House, things have not been easy for the centenarian over the past few years.
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Although only one in 6,303 people lives to become a centenarian today, the other scenarios on this list are quite common, even normal.
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Nickelodeon, MTV, BET and Comedy Central are among its network assets carried on cable, while the centenarian Paramount Pictures houses its production divisions.
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Now that the CD has dropped (and is on back-order at CDBaby as of Friday), the centenarian is planning his next move.
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Centenarian tortoises and blue-footed boobies inhabit the Galapagos alongside some 18,000 islanders who earn a living from fishing and the tourism industry.
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Despite being just one year shy of becoming a centenarian, Gabor has led a life peppered with hospital stays over the last 10 years.
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She used a wheelchair — even "stealing" the occasional one reserved at royal events for the centenarian queen mother — and suffered a series of strokes.
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She spent many years sharing a house in Monroeville with her sister, Alice, a centenarian who followed in her father's footsteps as a lawyer.
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I'm also happy to be the first to clue I.M. PEI in a new way, as he has now reached the status of centenarian.
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The four older heirs are Akihito's centenarian uncle, an 80-year-old brother, and two middle-aged sons whose wives are in their early 50s.
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I can already see the G.O.P. attack ad: Trump hails heroic Tuskegee airman and centenarian; then the shot cuts to Pelosi ripping up some pages.
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Her chief male competitor, Kirk Douglas, will join the centenarian club in December, but de Havilland made her screen debut more than 10 years before him.
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Opava-based photographer Jan Langer's "Faces of Century" photo series features side-by-side portraits of Czech people as a young adult and as a centenarian.
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Lynchings, riots, the Ku Klux Klan — she survived it all, and spent her centenarian years working to ensure that these realities never slipped from collective memory.
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Making Hattiesburg his home, the centenarian just completed his residency at the Belhaven University Dance Department in Jackson and continues to teach ballet around the state.
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Countless acres have been burned to cinders, killing people and livestock, leveling a whole town, destroying centenarian trees as well as newer woodlands meant for export.
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"Well he's out of town," the St. Paul, Minnesota, centenarian casually tells his neighbor O'Bannon about why he's getting to work with a shovel on the walkway.
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They're buying up recognizable names such as Ford Motor and General Electric, two centenarian corporations that are trading on the market for just above $10 per share.
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The centenarian whiskey resurfaced last year at a London auction, where it was picked up by a collector named Willie Murphy who is now its part-owner.
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Artworks were carefully selected to ensure that they matched the character of the play's fictional centenarian, who never appears onstage but acts like a back-seat curator.
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So when this woman became a centenarian, she decided to kick it back to the college days and party by playing a little game of beer pong.
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The words of Ms. Pomsel, who is remarkably lucid for a centenarian, are intercut with quotations from Goebbels and archival footage from both sides of the war.
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The German centenarian, a former sports teacher, has started a new chapter in her life by running for election to the council in her home town of Kirchheimbolanden.
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Despite handing over the role of executive chairman to his son, Teo Siong Seng, earlier this year, the centenarian Singaporean insists on going into the office every day.
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In its latest call, VF Corp, the centenarian footwear company, stressed the importance of its purpose-led performance to improve lives and the planet's sustainability, the host said.
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The centenarian, who was married for 42 years and rose to the rank of major before his retirement, said he thinks about Iwo Jima from time to time.
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The centenarian was photographed by fashion photographer Phil Poynter for the campaign, which will feature exclusively in the centenary issue, accompanied by a documentary film directed by Kell Stewart.
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You wouldn't think a doctor would recommend alcohol as a health remedy — but for centenarian Dorothy Parke, she said her doctor claims drinking helped her reach her 100th birthday.
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Death rates for centenarian women dropped 22014 percent in the six years ending in 2014, to 36.5 per 100 women, and by 20 percent to 33.2 per 100 men.
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At just two years shy of becoming a centenarian, Grandma Gladys still knows how to party, and her loving granddaughter is by her side to spark up the fun.
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As a national hero, he could have eased up; instead, the discipline continued unsparingly, with bodybuilding until he was 93 and, as a centenarian, 90 minutes' exercise each morning.
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Ms. Mann, whose plays include "Having Our Say" (based on the memoir by two centenarian African-American sisters, the Delanys), said the project's research had reshaped her mental geography.
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"We'd see a centenarian whose 80-year-old daughter had died," said Kathrin Boerner, a gerontologist at the University of Massachusetts Boston who studies the oldest of the old.
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He refers to himself as a "cheerful centenarian" and reflects chiefly on his "sunny hours"—best-seller lists, comfortable homes, a fortifying marriage, the deepening of his Jewish faith.
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Virginia McLaurin, the centenarian who charmed the country when she broke into dance upon meeting then-President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama, is celebrating her 108th birthday.
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After all, this centenarian swears that pink wine is the key to a long life, which we consider completely legitimate evidence that there's no such thing as too much rosé.
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It was painted by James Alexander Simpson, Georgetown University's first art instructor, after he heard that Mamout may have been a centenarian (we now know he wasn't quite there yet).
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Its owner, Mac Klein, is a tough 101-year-old Jewish veteran of World War II. He is a local legend, a centenarian hustler, the man who makes the rules.
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"What I want to say now is that Li Rui, a centenarian, has departed, so let him quietly depart," his widow, Zhang Yuzhen, said in a written message distributed to mourners.
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Altered Carbon's neo-San Francisco is ruled by multi-centenarian "Methuselahs" or Meths, and it would make sense if they'd held onto nostalgic relics like some nightmare version of the Baby Boomers.
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The Montgomery, New York, centenarian has no close family, so a friend came up with the idea of asking strangers to help her celebrate her 100th birthday last year by sending cards.
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READ MORE: The centenarian tide is on the rise But it wasn't until we met Antonio and Amina that I really got an insight into what makes people in Acciaroli live so long.
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We're left with the revelation that this wheelchair-bound centenarian did not string up Crawford with his hands but rather used the mesmeric techniques of a white supremacist group to his own ends.
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He was joined by Andrew Holmes, an activist in the community who told him the two were just going for a ride, but instead surprised the centenarian when they arrived at the field.
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Cycling centenarian says so long: French cycling hero Robert Marchand retires at the age of 106, a year after he completed 14.08 miles in one hour, a world record for the over-105s category.
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SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (Reuters) - A French centenarian, Robert Marchand, made cycling history on Wednesday by covering 22.528 km (14.08 miles) in one hour on a track near Paris at the age of 105.
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The centenarian made headlines earlier this year when, as an honorary delegate to the Democratic National Convention, she was given the honor of announcing that Arizona would cast 51 of its 85 votes for Clinton.
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Now a British citizen, Fauja Singh gained widespread attention in 2011 when he ostensibly set eight world age-group records at a track meet in Toronto and became the first centenarian to complete a marathon.
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We had come to his hometown of Acciaroli, south of Naples, for a report on the amazing longevity of its inhabitants, one in ten of whom, according to Mayor Stefano Pisani, is classed as a centenarian.
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One of the first studies I wrote about this year detailed the career and physiology of Robert Marchand, a diminutive French centenarian who took up competitive cycling as a retiree and began setting age-group records.
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MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France (Reuters) - Centenarian cyclist Robert Marchand donned his lycra shorts again on Friday and rode cautiously around France's indoor Velodrome National, becoming by far the oldest person to take a spin on the circuit.
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Mr Lloyd Parry deftly, even lovingly, tells the stories of those such as Takashi Shimokawara, who died aged 104, and whom he had interviewed in 2008 when the old man set the world javelin record for a centenarian.
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Shot mainly from 2005 to 2007, the movie shows Peter living there with his twin sister, Terry, who like him struggles with evident mental illness, and their near-centenarian father, Joseph, who remembers a childhood working in mines.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - A centenarian Japanese doctor who saw patients until just months before his death and helped set up the medical systems that have made Japan one of the world's longest-lived nations died on Tuesday at the age of 105.
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Lai says that he has seen a change in clientele even just in the past three years, but services such as Yelp and TripAdvisor may be bringing in people who otherwise wouldn't even know to look for the near-centenarian restaurant.
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The New England Centenarian Study, one of a handful of longevity research groups around the world focusing on supercentenarians, now turns down prospective DNA donors under age 103: "We tell them they're too young," said Dr. Thomas Perls, the study's director.
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And if, as Hazel smugly insists, you must "leave a place cleaner than you found it," what does that mean about the earth we bequeath to our children, blotched as it is with our awful mistakes and overrun with centenarian yoginis?
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There are many reasons that good data were hard to come by for centenarians back then, and it has not necessarily gotten much better since 22014, said Dr. Thomas Perls, geriatrician and director of the New England Centenarian Study at Boston Medical Center.
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But after a physiologist revamped his once-leisurely training, adding some strenuous pedaling, Mr. Marchand decisively bettered his own records and, at the age of 103, set a new world mark for the most miles pedaled in an hour by a centenarian.
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Tom Perls, a professor at the Boston University School of Medicine who is an expert on people who live unusually long lives, upon learning about Risher, said that he "very much is fitting the mold" of an eventual super-centenarian — those who live to be 143 or older.
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Eisenman remains close, she told me, to the "Eisenman clan," including two brothers and a centenarian great-aunt who is the subject of her painting "Death and the Maiden" (2009), as a blowsy nude tippling wine at a table with a patient and even tenderly companionable death figure.
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The show, "Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight," caps off several years of festivities, many of which have focused on the artist's centenarian status, including a documentary film, "The 21974 Years Show, Starring Carmen Herrera"; a spring exhibition of recent paintings at the Lisson Gallery in Chelsea; and numerous profiles hailing Ms. Herrera as a living treasure and praising her acerbic wit.
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Her television credits include the mini-series "Roots: The Next Generations" (1979) and the TV movies "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (1979), an adaptation of Maya Angelou's memoir in which she portrayed Ms. Angelou's mother, and "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years" (1999), in which she played the indomitable Harlem centenarian Sadie Delany opposite Ruby Dee.
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There's a stunning deathbed picture of Victor Hugo in 1885; a deeply moving portrait of his wife, Ernestine, in 1890, after she had suffered a stroke (and which Roland Barthes called "one of the loveliest photographs in the world"); and his interview with the centenarian scientist Eugène Chevreul, in 1886, that was illustrated with sequential photos of the two of them talking, suggesting a film.
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