Word: matronly
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...called a convenient authority on feminism—my mother, who as a young woman interned for Bella Abzug, and whom I suspect of having once been a radical. (I was once convinced that she was an ex-member of the Weather Underground very effectively disguised as a suburban matron, due to her liberal leanings and a suspicious lack of anecdotes about her past.) Anyway, she confirmed that replacing “girl” with “woman” had once been a central concern of feminists...
Ruth Stone’s poem continues, “I think when I wake in the morning/ that I have turned into her./ She hangs in the hall downstairs,/ a shadow with pulled threads./ I slip her over my arms, skin of a matron./ Where are you? I say to myself, to the orphaned body,/ and her coat says,/ Get your purse, have you got your keys?” Wrapped in the customs of this place as securely as a second-hand coat, it’s easy to adopt a Harvard worldview—to ask ourselves...
Ultimately, the only analogous performance in recent movie history is Sigourney Weaver's turn as the avenging warrior matron in Aliens. But whereas Weaver clenched her jaw, widened her eyes and depended on a giant space monster to provide the fear, Thurman sometimes is the thing to fear. Even though the reasons for the Bride's revenge spree are well set up, there are moments when Thurman portrays her as a beast who has tasted blood and might like more. Certainly there are also plenty of scenes in which Thurman seems to be holding herself together by the memory thread...
...would take place as elaborate vaudeville routines in the dreamy imagination of Roxie. "The hardest part about musicals is that scary moment when characters start to sing," says Marshall, who recruited screenwriter Bill Condon (Oscar winner for 1998's Gods and Monsters) to write the script. As the prison matron (Queen Latifah) speaks, Roxie's eyes begin to dance; suddenly, Latifah metamorphoses into a full-bodied chanteuse whose rendition of When You're Good to Mama brings down the house. When Roxie's husband (John C. Reilly) takes the blame for her crime, Roxie's warm thoughts become a love...
...though, and head back west to the Åpent Bakeri. Tucked away behind the Royal Palace, on an anonymous side street aptly called Inkognito Terrasse, the bakery is marked by the long line snaking out the door - a cross-section of Oslo that, on my visit, included an elderly matron in a fur hat, a painter in splattered coveralls and young fashionistas. Most offerings, like the crusty walnut bread (delicious even without butter), are French, but the methods are artisanal Norwegian. As is the one must-taste - and don't pretend you don't know what...