Word: madame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cutting Capers. Then a fairy gold-mother appears, a working madam (Beatrice Straight) willing to aid a matron in distress with a part-time afternoon job as a $100-an-hour call girl. Barbara is appalled-but not for long. When a packet of almost $5,000 arrives addressed to Nelson, it is clear to the audience, if not to him, that his wife is making good in the oldest business...
Soon, Nelson is shocked to learn the truth about the mystery money. Yet by Act II, he and Barbara are using it to throw a party for neighbors whose style of living they ape and envy. When the madam suddenly appears at the party to announce that the police are on to her, it becomes clear that all of the wives have been cutting capers in her beds. And their husbands are in the know. With baleful urbanity, the men band together and make plans to protect their tax-free sincome...
...next to John Lithgow's ramrod prissy Luzhin, the rich, hollow financee of Raskolnikov's sister. The lines of character like the lines of John Braden's sets are balanced, clear and instantly defined. Bea Paipert creates two brief roles, the hunched, old pawnbroker Raskolnikov kills and a crazy madam at a police station, in maybe three minutes of stage time. Tom Jones plays a marvelously affected Police Lieutenant who obviously should have been a general...
...attentively to the words of a cocktail waiter, then slips him a bar of silver. In an office of the U.S. embassy in Bonn, a rotund Sovietologist digests a stack of reports that may originate from any one of a thousand sources -a barber in East Berlin, a whorehouse madam in Vienna, a U.S. electronics salesman in Darmstadt, an Eastern European propaganda broadside. At an airfield on Taiwan, a black U-2 reconnaissance plane with a Nationalist Chinese pilot at the controls soars off the runway, bound for skies 15 miles above Red China on a photographic mission...
...that the insistence on black power, with its current overtones, will be an alienating influence. He told of a wealthy white woman who came down to Watts and wanted to do her part by writing him a check for $20. "I told her 'We don't want your money, madam; we just want you to spend some of your time working in our community.' Since then she's contributed a couple thousand dollars," Pastard said. Then he looked up with a mischievous smile...