Word: matronic
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...cats, plus incalculable numbers of hamsters and hedgehogs, budgerigars and even baboons. Churchill used to disclose "secrets I could tell no man" to a favorite poodle. When an American visitor at a royal military review observed that Queen Elizabeth was bearing up nobly under a beastly sun, a British matron snapped back: "It's the horses must be really suffering...
...maroon matron, a net over her eyes
...parts, some more valid than others, but all typical and yet unique. The force that binds them together, the soul of California, is the search for a better life carried on by 20 million individuals, a tenth of the U.S. population. The will-o'-the-wisp?Californism?propels the matron to the massage parlor, impels the petitioner or protester to demonstrate against smog or close a campus in the name of students' rights. It fuels the rage of the blacks and the Chicanos and the newly militant Chinese, who are all more conscious than minorities anywhere else of deprivation...
FORTY CARATS, a French comedy of new marital modes and manners, is just the evening to drive away the day's tribulations. Julie Harris is a matron who falls for a 22-year-old lad while a wealthy widower woos her 18-year-old daughter, proving that love is a game for all seasons...
...Manhattan hovers a claque of middle-aged women, shuffling their sensible shoes and swearing that the guy is the greatest thing since Clairol. Next to them is a gaggle of teen-age groupies eating their hearts out because their hero is married, of all things. But, as one matron said to a groupie, "It's all right, dear -he's ours only for an hour...