Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like the crowd that showed up at Blue Lagoon, seems about equally divided between young folks, who howl at the dialogue, and middleaged women, the sort who look as if they frequent the Gothic Books section of their local drugstore, and who sit in awed silence, except for one matron in front of me, who yelled serveral times for the hooting teens to shut up. These plain women believe in the movie, in its fantasy look at beautiful young girls. And they obviously approve of its moral message, which is the centerpiece of this movie. They never spent hot nights...
...should just shut up. He has no social graces, but his venom is directed out there somewhere--a romantic who has retreased to snideness since romance died. Richard Bone is a lazy Ivy League, ostensibly working around a marina selling boats, but more often than not hopping from one matron's bed to another, a bored and listless stud. What little structure there is in their lives is provided at Cutter's house--a cramped, cozy bungalow on a suburban street in Santa Barbara and by his wife. Mo (Lisa Eichhorn), a companion and sometimes earth mother...
Anna Karenina. A pretty young Russian matron gets a certain Count Vronsky interested in stamp collecting and so saves him from wasting his life in passion and frivolity...
...whole affair left Wall Street slightly dazed. Within minutes, the new stock leaped from its offering price of $35 a share to $89. As thousands of buyers bid for a piece of the action, brokerage houses had to resort to strict rationing. When a Beverly Hills matron demanded 100 shares, her broker apologetically explained that he could give her only...
What we get are the dumb blonde stewardesses from California ("Whenever my boy-friend sees a bedroom, he gets so heavy"), the middle-aged' matron leaning toward nymphomania who chases other people's butlers ("Wouldn't you rather come work for me, Charles?"), and the horny American businessman ("We'll talk about the deal later. How about fixing me up with you secretary...