Word: matronly
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They were the matron of honor and best man at each other's weddings, a pillar in each other's lives and that of the country, dividing the labor of carrying on their father's legacy: Caroline taking the library, John the Kennedy School. But as close as they were, they were also very different. If John was an Adonis, she was pretty in that Irish way, all teeth and wavy hair and good healthy vigor. They both worried about how to have a meaningful life in a fishbowl, but John would lead a life that required he bat away...
...tabloid conspiracies that crowd her persona. The jazz singer Diane Schuur made poignant connections between her own blindness and that of Helen Keller. Rita Dove, America's former poet laureate, produced a tightly woven mini-epic in prose of the moment of Rosa Parks' apotheosis from unprepossessing Montgomery, Ala., matron to unshakable icon of the civil rights movement. Collaborating with staff writer Romesh Ratnesar, Fang explained the symbiotic nature of physics and political dissent that he and Sakharov practiced. Says Ratnesar: "He did so in a methodical, disciplined way, as if he were explaining the proof of a theorem." Ratnesar...
...Germans' laughter belied their misgivings. Many Daimler-Benz executives initially viewed Chrysler as a primped-up matron would regard an earnest young suitor. Chrysler marketing chief Jim Holden recalls his first meeting at the Mercedes-Benz U.S. headquarters in Montvale, N.J. As the Germans presented their view of the brand hierarchy--Mercedes on top and everything else far, far below--the tension in the room was palpable. Says Holden: "We felt like we were marrying up, and it was clear they thought they were marrying down...
...other schools (a boarding school is a somewhat isolated backwater of the meme pool). But I do know that my father originally picked up the Chinese-junk meme during an almost identical epidemic at the same school 25 years earlier. The earlier virus was launched by the school matron. Long after the old matron's departure, I had reintroduced her meme to a new cohort of small boys...
...psychological complexity. This earlier work, making its off-Broadway debut, takes a complex premise--twin sisters embody women's changing roles from the 1950s through the '80s--but hammers it with obviousness. Swoosie Kurtz plays both the "good" sister Myrna, who goes from soda-fountain virgin to Republican matron, and the "bad" Myra, who becomes a radical terrorist. The play depends too heavily on easy pop-cultural cliches and the usual hit parade of nostalgic oldies. Forget the play; bring back Teresa Brewer...