Word: madame
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That she does, later, as a lady of pleasure, madam and finally founder of an international chain of Schools of Love. But Ellen's experiences are no more colorful than her manner of reporting them. Burgess turns his heroine's "Uneducated English" into a marvelously supple and comic tool of exposition. When she recalls the job that finally did her father in, a pianoplaying marathon in Blackpool, Ellen tries to give some sense of Billy's repertoire during his last 15 days at the keyboard; several pages of song titles follow, including Beethoven's Mignonette in G, the Pilgrim...
MAYFLOWER MADAM...
Dear Sir or Madam...
...compelling new performances in plays, both by old hands: Rosemary Harris as a coy, manipulative grande dame of the stage in Noel Coward's astringent farce Hay Fever and Uta Hagen, the original Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, as a practical and amoral urchin turned madam in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession...
Then she is back for her best number, carried onstage in a reclining posture by her backup dancers, looking like Madam Recamier in her salon, twirling a long rope of pearls and camping a mile a minute. "This is," she sings to a pop reggae beat, "a material world. And I am" pause "a material girl." Luxuriating in materialism, poking fun at greediness -- she is performing for adolescents who feel deprived if their cars don't have quadraphonic cassette players -- Madonna is singing that she is available to the highest bidder, then denying that. And at the end, she pulls...