Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closed-in sensibilities of Tuna's God-fearing Christians doesn't miss any of the familiar small town cliches: bigotry, hypocrisy, xenophobia, catty gossip, and the usual repressed instincts lurking under propriety. Even death in this tumbleweed town is a cause for excitement. Pearl Burris, the canincidal matron with a taste for strychnine stands in the funeral home, admiring the "lovely-looking corpse" of Judge Buckner, her long-ago Romeo, found dead in a Dale Evans one-piece swimsuit. Meanwhile, the latest word from Nadine's mother is that Nadine has run away again and that...
...shifting from character to character, place to place, reality to fantasy and back. Here Tomlin plays a baker's dozen of ill-assorted characters, from an uncommonly well-read bag lady to a neurotically self-dramatizing and spiteful 15-year-old. The gallery includes two gentle prostitutes, a trendy matron, three feminists reminiscing about the glory days of the movement, and an entire down-home household in Greenwood, Ind. Some of these people and their situations are the predictable stuff of sitcoms, and at moments the show makes fun of easy targets. Tomlin seems determined to find something sympathetic...
...daughters of ghetto immigrants were well on their way to becoming deeply rooted members of the middle class. Their semiofficial arrival can be dated to 1955. That was the year Herman Wouk published Marjorie Morningstar, the best seller about a prodigal daughter who ends up a proper suburban matron...
...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...