Word: matronly
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...three stars (Day-Lewis superbly stooped by rectitude, Pfeiffer so elegant and bruised, Ryder a young Audrey Hepburn in all her wide-eyed guile) are swathed in glamorous costumes and period decor. The congestion of old masters on a matron's wall suggests the confined space in which the story unfolds and the straitened notions to which Newland and Ellen must pay homage. The handsomely fussy design is meant to dazzle and deaden the viewer's senses -- as Newland is seduced by Ellen and suffocated...
...monitor shows a white doctor at a cocktail party confiding, "Guess who moved in next door?" The camera shifts to a second group. "I mean, right next door. Can you imagine?" exclaims a black businessman. The camera travels again. "These people, they live like animals!" complains a wealthy white matron. An Asian restaurant owner adds, "You know what they're like -- the way they raise their children." Contends a thirtyish white man: "Sure wouldn't want my daughter . . ." ". . . son . . ." says the Asian. ". . . sister . . ." says a Hispanic woman. The matron finishes: ". . . marrying one of them...
Actor Mark S. Cartier does a strong job as the beleaguered Lord Edgar and Jane Twisden, the housekeeper with a secret to hide. His Jane is a perfect re-creation of the archetypal matron devoted to her house and to her mistress...
...Fisher (Joan Plowright), a crusty matron, was once an intimate of Ruskin and Rossetti, as she will remind you without prompting. Lady Caroline (Polly Walker) might be a pre-Raphaelite princess, but adrift in the jazz age and bored by the clammy attentions men pay her. The others, Lottie (Josie Lawrence) and Rose (Miranda Richardson), are trussed in marriages that seem more like mergers. Lottie's husband, an attorney, wants her to be a housemaid and party ornament. Rose's husband, a writer, wants her to stay at home, out of his lightly lecherous way, and tend the emptiness...
...YEAR WHEN AMERICANS ARE KEEN TO THROW the insiders out and vote the outsiders in, women candidates continue to find uncommon success at the ballot box. Last week Pennsylvania Democrats tapped Lynn Yeakel, 50, a Main Line matron with no experience in elected office, to run against Republican Senator Arlen Specter in November. Yeakel, who founded Women's Way, a coalition of charities that raised nearly $2 million last year for a variety of women's causes, jumped into the race after watching the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee grill Anita Hill. "I looked at those 14 men," she said...