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Word: matronic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fortune in coat hangers and has a life-style, but not much of a life, to show for it. He drives a Rolls, has a white-on-white-on-white living room and employs a psychiatrist for his dog, a lovable mutt named Matisse. Like any good Beverly Hills matron, Barbara Whiteman (Bette Midler) employs a guru and a nutritionist among the many other functionaries who cannot seem to solve her problems, which include too many migraines and too few orgasms. Their adolescent children, naturally, are having trouble with their sexual identities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sugary Satire: DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance!--the second Broadway outing for the saucy, violet-haired, spangle-spectacled matron played by Australian actor Barry Humphries--has, by contrast, no trouble filling the stage. And it's not just the piano player and the four dancers who accompany him. Humphries has built an entire show out of that old comedy-club staple of bantering with the audience. But the earnestly solicitous singsong with which Dame Edna delivers her well-practiced sucker punches ("I love the outfit you've chosen." Beat. "Is it reversible?") robs them of any meanness or condescension. Humphries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Power of One | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...Pixies never made sense. A bald, fat genius, a transplant from the Philippines, a chain-smoking matron and a stage magician have no right to write songs about Puerto Rico, the Old Testament and UFOs that are actually good, much less classics. They were far too improbable to exist for any length of time. The concert Thursday was a fair historical reconstruction of that period, and it would be too much to hope for the real thing...

Author: By Eric L. Fritz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pixies Back in Boston | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

However, things turned sour for the hooting, energetic audience when the Lowell Lecture Hall matron told the crowd that those without seats would have to exit the premises immediately...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Scene and Heard | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

...from behind, fondled his crotch, threw him to the ground and grabbed his head and stuck it by her own crotch. A concerned mother threw her hands in front of her child’s eyes. White boys everywhere cursed their lack of melanin. The Lowell Lecture Hall matron got up and left...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Scene and Heard | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

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