Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...office its first weekend, the best opening record of any film this year--portrays a gay couple whose old-fashioned family values even Bob Dole conservatives could love. And Lane's funny, flouncy yet surprisingly restrained performance--topped by a bravura drag bit as a Barbara Bush-style matron--is a big reason...
...stairs on his skates. He gets to ogle kinky calisthenics before being chased by an inflexible feminine mob. He gets to squeeze into a convertible with a bunch of babelicious teenyboppers before they try to make roadkill out of him. He catches a lift from a clucking, jowly matron on a motorbike who pins him down in the seedshed and tries to rape...
Deceptively lightweight, "Company" nevertheless captures real moments of human emotion without weighing the audience down with sentimentality or artistic pretensions. Sondheim and Furth add irony, a much-needed quality in a musical, without being too self-consicous about it. Even their "types" (crusty matron, dim-but-nubile stewrdess), manage to escape cliche. And when the couples sing "The Little Things You Do Together," with barely-hidden hostility, they articulate the uncanny need for men and women to stay together, no matter how ridiculously miserable they might...
...symbol. When the four-term Indiana Senator strode into a cocktail party at the National Federation of Republican Women conference wearing a broad smile and a blue suit, a hundred ladies were all atwitter. A Colorado woman in sequined denim sighed, "He's such a sweetheart!" A gray-haired matron from Florida had a twinkle in her bifocals: "He's even better-looking in person than he is on TV!" A lady with a WOMEN FOR GRAMM button elbowed a woman in elephant earrings to get next...
...goods and services. To prevent the system from being too regressive, he would exempt certain foods and medicine and not tax the first $5,000 worth of purchases. "Every dollar you earn is yours," he says. This is greeted with scattered clapping, but when a gray-haired matron hears him peg the sales tax at 17%, she exclaims, "Lordy...