Word: matronic
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Chivalry. The indecent exposure of the ex-First Lady excited Europe, where Jackiemania is still rampant, and enthralled Italians of both sexes. "It was the women, above all, who were curious," observed Rome's Il Messaggero. "Not very sexy," purred one Italian matron, "and a little bit wooden." Milan's Il Giorno noted chivalrously-and accurately-that Jackie's figure, at 43, is "still elegant, slim, and young...
...Harvard stage. With the same sharp style that Franken displays as he switches accents in spinning out dialogue, the other members of the cast play their assorted roles. Louise Claps condenses single, clear emotions in her parts which range from Bruce's comfortable aunt to a prison matron. Sue Brown moves from stripper to 1950's sweetheart to prim court reporter. Handicapped with a lesser variety among their bit parts, the men were adequate; Perry Emerson, who had the most opportunity for diversity, welched on his challenge by playing all his parts alike...
...encompass the transformation from faceless widow to a sparkling "older woman" who carries on an affair with a 20-year-old boy. An Elizabeth Taylor, perhaps. Producer Mike Frankovich wanted Liv Ullmann-so much so that he was willing to have the part rewritten to suit her, lowering the matron's age and making her Scandinavian-born...
...Queen's most significant attempt to take the mystery out of monarchy was her sanctioning of a candid, 1¾-hour television documentary showing how she and her flock behaved in private. Although still every inch a Queen, she has projected the image of a modestly attractive matron whom anybody would be proud to have as an aunt. That is, if she were not, by dint of birth and the abdication of an uncle, tied up with the responsibilities of the world's most prestigious surviving monarchy...
...wherever found. But Nixon is even more in Mailer's eyes, not merely a political genius but an artist of the banal, "the Einstein of the mediocre and the inert." In an astute account of the psychological balance-sheet, Mailer sees that one egg thrown at a Republican matron by an antiwar demonstrator "can mop up the guilt of five hundred bombs" dropped on Viet...