Word: matronic
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...these actresses may be making a bigger impact off-screen than on. Linda Evans, 41, the striking beauty who plays Krystle Carrington on Dynasty, in particular has become a sort of matron saint for the over-40 crowd. Says she: "I'm thrilled to be able to say to women, 'I'm 41, and I love it. Come along down the road. It's not horrible.' " Adds Dallas' Linda Gray, 44: "I feel grateful that Joan and Linda and I are role models for women in America. We are saying...
...little identity of her own. Ransom's old and Olive's new are alternately borrowed and discarded in an effort to keep all parties of the love triangle reasonably happy. At the same time, Verena is convincing and interesting enough--"an original," as an admiring New York matron points out--to keep all the vacillation quite riveting...
...century ago, when he began painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat froze a score of weekend strollers into pointillist immortality. Now they are posed on a Broadway stage, thawing into something like life. The matron on the right, with the bustle and the chained monkey? She is the artist's mistress, Dot (Bernadette Peters), pretty as a picture but not quite so still; she would rather be at the Follies. See the white bundle a man at the rear is holding? That is the infant daughter of Dot and the artist...
Their arrival in Los Angeles marks a temporary triumph of optimism; Enrique becomes a waiter in a posh restaurant; Rosa finds work first in a garment factory (where she sees models "Just like in a magazine!") and then as housemaid to an amusingly prim matron who unsuccessfully tries to teach her how to operate a computerized washer-dryer...
...from verbal violence to physical: a gang attack, an anonymous bullet, a bomb thrown from a passing car. More often racism comes at arm's length: random insults, hostile stares, racial stereotypes held up as universal truths. "Yes, I suppose I'm prejudiced," says a West London matron. "People my age had nothing to do with the blunders and greed of the upper classes toward the colonies, and I don't see why I should put up with the results now. The first thing the blacks do is go on welfare. And I'm tired...