Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orange paisley coat, velvet jockey cap and sturdy black lace-ups, Nevelson was a little doubtful about the location of her work among the luxury apartment houses of upper Park Avenue. Some passers-by agreed with her, though not for the same reason. "It's hideous!" exclaimed a matron only to be overruled by a threeyear-old completely attuned to Nevelson's wave length. "It isn't the Statue of Liberty," he cried. "What's it called...
Only Alfred Drake, as Gaston's uncle, is an unalloyed delight though Agnes Moorehead as Gigi's worldly aunt is tartly amusing. As an inveterate and accomplished boulevardier with a mischievously saucy eye for maid or matron, Drake is a shameless charmer with voice that is pure gold. The score-much of it reprised from the film-is far and away the best part of the show. As for the negligible choreography, it seems rather like a course in ballroom deportment except for one cancan number, and anyone who can work up much excitement over the cancan...
That was only the first of many Tuck jokes to be played on Richard Nixon. In the 1960 presidential campaign, Nixon flew to Memphis after his first television debate with John Kennedy. Greeting him as he left the airplane was an effusive matron wearing an oversize Nixon button; she flung her arms around him and commiserated: "Don't worry, son. Kennedy won last night but you'll do better next time." Nixon visibly paled, while sandwiched among the press corps, Tuck was laughing at the stunt he had improvised. One day Nixon was in the middle...
...week's end a few Newporters had got thoroughly into the class spirit of their roles. Noted one bejeweled matron, "Some of the extras playing grand ladies have begun ordering around others dressed as maids...
...surface Nora is happy with her life. You see her first as the doting wife and ravishing matron of a quite proper bourgeois household. She flutters about as if domesticity were giving her a giddy high. She coos over her babies, she makes a delighted to-do about dressing the Christmas tree and saving pennies when she shops. Set up by her husband, Torvald, as queen of his private life, she manages his home with charm of a born peacemaker. She doesn't question the rightness of the fact that she has to steal sweets behind her husband's back...