Word: matron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film Ordinary People, she plays the part of an excessively reserved and poised matron who proves incapable of helping her 18-year-old son, who has attempted suicide. After the movie was released last month, Actress Mary Tyler Moore, 42, acknowledged that she prepared for the part by drawing on her experiences in raising her own son from her first marriage, Richard Carlton Meeker Jr., 24. Said she: "I was kind of a perfectionist mother, and I demanded a lot of him. I think I was responsible for a lot of alienation. I brought some of that to the part...
...Carter accomplish anything? Will the crustiest of Beacon Street continue to surrender their dollars in the final push for a Democratic victory? "I was dubious at first," said one well-dressed matron after the final ovation faded into a post-meal hum. "Everyone had doubts coming into this one, but in person he (Carter) is truly grand. He is an honest man," she added. Her husband nodded in silent agreement as he guided the old woman toward the door...
...incongruous meeting of steel and flesh, the parting of bones. The camera is distressingly far away from the scene, forcing one to see it at an all-too-clear viewpoint, forcing one to see it all with horrifying objectivity. When the axe first sinks into the matron's shoulder, it suddenly comes together, the evil of the situation...
...grounds." Ostentation was the order of the day in certain circles--when tavern-owner Andrew Belcher died in 1717, his estate bore the cost of 96 pairs of kid gloves and 50 suits of mourning made expressly for the funeral. And during the Revolutionary War, a Tory German matron threw a birthday part in honor of George III. Cantabrigians could hardly keep their temper at that affront, so they surrounded the house in "silent, non-violent protest...
...what else?-reading. Postal Carrier Wendell Brown emerges blinking at the cover of Louis L'Amour's The Burning Hills and waits for his wife Pat, who steps out bearing another L'Amour, The Lonely Men. Says Pat: "I got it for him." A well-fed matron waddles off with the Joy of Cooking...