Word: matrons
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...Ninoy languished in prison, his diffident and devout wife became his eyes, ears and voice in the outside world, acting as his liaison with what remained of the Philippine opposition. For seven years and seven months, spending hours alone with her husband in his cell, the upper-class matron received tutorials in opposition strategies from a master of the political arts. In between, she had to smuggle messages to and from him, sometimes on scraps of paper, sometimes in her head...
...unit motel going up across the street from that, the uncountable thousands are walking down Main Street in the rain. A young woman comes out of Bean's, pleasure in her face and a felt make-believe moose rack on her head. Inside an outlet shop, a slender matron explains to her friend, "So he bought me these shoes in Gucci's, and I said to him, 'Do me a favor. Don't buy me anything.' " Down in back of Main Street in the parking lots, there are men who deign not to participate with wives in this Disneyland...
...closed-in sensibilities of Tuna's God-fearing Christians doesn't miss any of the familiar small town cliches: bigotry, hypocrisy, xenophobia, catty gossip, and the usual repressed instincts lurking under propriety. Even death in this tumbleweed town is a cause for excitement. Pearl Burris, the canincidal matron with a taste for strychnine stands in the funeral home, admiring the "lovely-looking corpse" of Judge Buckner, her long-ago Romeo, found dead in a Dale Evans one-piece swimsuit. Meanwhile, the latest word from Nadine's mother is that Nadine has run away again and that...
...shifting from character to character, place to place, reality to fantasy and back. Here Tomlin plays a baker's dozen of ill-assorted characters, from an uncommonly well-read bag lady to a neurotically self-dramatizing and spiteful 15-year-old. The gallery includes two gentle prostitutes, a trendy matron, three feminists reminiscing about the glory days of the movement, and an entire down-home household in Greenwood, Ind. Some of these people and their situations are the predictable stuff of sitcoms, and at moments the show makes fun of easy targets. Tomlin seems determined to find something sympathetic...
...daughters of ghetto immigrants were well on their way to becoming deeply rooted members of the middle class. Their semiofficial arrival can be dated to 1955. That was the year Herman Wouk published Marjorie Morningstar, the best seller about a prodigal daughter who ends up a proper suburban matron...