Word: matron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tough, deal-cutting, back-slapping politician, and at the same time a warm, disarmingly rumpled matron. During her 28 years in public life, Connecticut's Ella Grasso never lost an election. In an era when feminism was just beginning to dawn in the male preserve of politics, she became the first U.S. woman Governor ever elected in her own right (a few others followed their husbands). Admirers talked about Grasso as a future Vice President or Cabinet member, but she preferred Hartford to Washington. She kept a sign in her living room: BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED...
...Vuitton initials, however, are now so ubiquitous that some of the firm's traditional customers are grumbling. Said one impeccably dressed matron who stopped at Vuitton's Manhattan shop last week to ask about the plain bags: "I don't want my friends to think I'm adhering to the fad of having designer initials on everything." Vuitton will still make its standard initialed line for those who wish to be walking billboards...
...spectacular collection from a Chicago matron...
...noncollector, she assembled a spectacular collection. Last week Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman, Chicago matron and patron of the arts, announced that she would bequeath it all to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Current value: $12 million to $15 million. Met Director Philippe de Montebello described it as the greatest private collection of abstract expressionists in the world. The gift does not become final until after her death. But at 66, Newman is still active in the art world as a member of the Chicago Art Institute's committee on 20th century painting and sculpture...
...American Repertory Theatre production is its dextrous explication of Brecht's easily garbled multiple ironies. Epstein uses his performers, music, dance, mime and even neon signs to illuminate Brecht's critique of the half-life of the bourgeoisie; he gives it such sober clarity that even the most plumped matron must follow Brecht point by point, and shudder...