Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family and therapists. Strong's effort, by contrast, is a richly reported and achingly well-written account that benefits from a reporter's storytelling skills. As she profiles a range of injurers--from Andrew, a star chemistry student at a British university, to Fran, a wealthy suburban New York matron--Strong deftly crafts not a freak parade but a sad march of the familiar...
...Generation-X imbibers, the perfect wine combines Bordeaux quality with Boone's Farm prices--and don't forget the hip label design. Which is why Laura Hartwig may become a very popular woman. She's the matron--and the face on the label--of the three-year-old Santa Laura winery in Chile's Colchagua Valley. The vineyard's Cabernet Sauvignons are full of lavish spice and berry flavors, with pleasant touches of vanilla and chocolate, all for just $10 a bottle. Chilean wines like Hartwig's are in demand at Wine Brats, a Gen-X club in Santa Rosa...
...paragraphs like a peaceful country road winding its way through the hills of Denmark. Yet, after a hundred pages of strolling through the highways and byways of Europe, the laid-back pace of the prose begins to grate on the nerves. Morris seems almost the quintessential kindly, old British matron and as a result, listening to her drone on is like having an especially long lunch with your grand-mother. She usually has good stories to tell, but, boy, does she ramble...
...expected to offer a return to comforting routine. William will enter his third year in Manor House, the ivied building where he has lived with 49 other boys. Andrew Gailey, the warm and erudite housemaster, as well as Christopher Stuart-Clark, his tutor, and Elizabeth Heathcote, Manor House's matron, will lend support to William, as they did during his parents' divorce. "William is comfortable there and popular with the boys," says Hurd. "It's a very flexible place...
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, the matron of honor, walked ahead of Carolyn. Caroline's two daughters, Tatiana and Rose, were flower girls and her son Jack, 3, was the ring bearer. "Why is Carolyn dressed like that?" Jack asked, creating a ripple of laughter. Anthony Radziwill, the son of Jackie's sister Lee, served as best man. The vows were the standard Roman Catholic liturgy. Kennedy and Bessette had received permission from a bishop to hold a Catholic ceremony in a Protestant church. The deacon was a Jesuit from the church in New York City where Jackie was baptized, confirmed...