Olga Viza and the 'pizpirómetro': nostalgia that ages
The 'pizpirómetro' is back to measuring Olga Viza's age: caught between memories of the 80s and the awareness that we all grow old, the score doesn't really matter.
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Olga Viza, between memory and the 'pizpirómetro'
The 'pizpirómetro' is that informal scale the internet uses to measure the passage of time on the faces of famous people. And this week it was Olga Viza's turn, the Spanish journalist who defined an era at TVE and later at other networks. In a moment of nostalgia for the eighties, several comments agreed that even back then she seemed like a "lady", which creates a curious paradox: was she older than we remember, or is our memory playing tricks on us?
Some place the footage in the early eighties, others in 1980-82. What nobody disputes is that Viza already had that television maturity that made her recognizable. The question hanging in the air is inevitable: why does it surprise us that a person from forty years ago wasn't young? Perhaps because the screen freezes a moment that reality contradicts.
In the end, the 'pizpirómetro' doesn't measure real age, but the distance between what we remember and what we were. And that distance, for Viza as for anyone, is always greater than we think.
The 'pizpirómetro' is that informal scale the internet uses to measure the passage of time on the faces of famous people. And this week it was Olga Viza's turn, the Spanish journalist who defined an era at TVE and later at other networks. In a moment of nostalgia for the eighties, several comments agreed that even back then she seemed like a "lady", which creates a curious paradox: was she older than we remember, or is our memory playing tricks on us?
Some place the footage in the early eighties, others in 1980-82. What nobody disputes is that Viza already had that television maturity that made her recognizable. The question hanging in the air is inevitable: why does it surprise us that a person from forty years ago wasn't young? Perhaps because the screen freezes a moment that reality contradicts.
In the end, the 'pizpirómetro' doesn't measure real age, but the distance between what we remember and what we were. And that distance, for Viza as for anyone, is always greater than we think.
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