Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent Sunday, a Honolulu matron answered the door of her stately home to find three Japanese businessmen who offered her $300,000 for it on the spot; they wanted it as a vacation center for their Hiroshima workers. When she refused, the group's spokesman replied: "Ah, I understand. The $300,000 was merely for the house. The grounds we can discuss later." Similar, if less startling, offers are being made all over Hawaii these days as Japanese businessmen step up their efforts to buy control of hotels, shops, travel agencies, land and private estates...
...happy," she says when she gets the part. "Oh, how wonderful and rich and strange life can be when you stop playing out the roles that your parents wrote out for you." But there is more than a bemused, detached, exact satire of the middle-class matron who kicks her restraining habits for culturally rationalized thrills. At the story's center is the husband, upset and bewildered, who only regains a sense of dignity because of those small things which remain with him when he strips himself...
...Arthur Sullivan, but when the band gets back to Melrose's score, it's slow going again. Still, it's the kind of show kindhearted audiences try hard to like, and the cast is already learning how to spread its limited talent thin. David Lewis does reliably unflappable matron Prune, waddling through both acts with his dignity intact even when his virtue has been lost. As the traditionally breathy and breasty torch singer, Tom Wells (Helza) has enough slink and alto in him to fill his shining jump-suit with credibility, and Mark Miller's One-Eyed Jack starts...
...will govern from the White House and Buckingham Palace. Minor injury follows major insult. When gum-chewing, libidinous Marines land to ensure "an orderly transition of power," they shoot a farm dog and rough up farm lads - unforgivable! But worse is yet to come. A toothy American matron out lines a "Cultural Get Together": good Cornish men will be decked out in folk costume, and the Cornish hills will be turned into a "miniature Switzerland"- all for the pleasure of culture-avid, free-spending Midwestern tourists...
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...