Word: primness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first glance, the women in this two-character play seem singularly unbondable. Maude Mix (Susan Sarandon) is a prim, orderly Westchester housewife. Her decorator-designed kitchen qualifies as a picture spread in Better Homes and Gardens, and her life seems to mirror her kitchen. When the curtain rises, Maude is meticulously folding laundry and baking chocolate chip cookies for charity. As if to modify these rituals, she breaks into a wild disco dance to the strains of Gimme Shelter...
...exception is Sandy (Shelby Brammer), an innocent of 20, who trustingly leaves the compound with an Arab boy. She is raped and sodomized, detonating the melodramatic climax of the play. For Andrew (Joseph Daly), a doctor, and his taut, prim and principled wife Eunice (Mila Burnette), sex is parsed in the past tense. Andrew does make a halfhearted pass at Sandy, but one feels that it is intercepted by his conscience. Martin (Stephen D. Newman), a bisexual member of the diplomatic corps who vastly prefers men, delivers his sardonic lines with Wildean brio. He describes his forays among the local...
...Ariadne Arkady tells it, hers was the archetypal "womanly" existence destined for the girl child born to immigrant parents around the turn of the 20th century. Denied a college education by her doting but traditional father, she is matched to an accountant with a Sephardic pedigree and a prim nature that denies her sensuality through 40 years of marriage. Four children are born and bred amidst a welter of domesticities. Passions are expended in the composition of herbaceous borders, the concoction of raspberry tarts and the preparation of potions of cocoa laced with rum and chocolate shavings. Yet Ariadne moves...
Standing in a row, they look prim, proper and more than a little abashed, like three Palm Beach socialites turning up in the same Pucci. In their January issues, the Smithsonian, Scientific American and National Geographic all appeared with cover photos showing a volcano erupting on Jupiter's moon lo. Though having look-alike covers is an editor's nightmare that all too frequently comes true, the science magazines' trifecta was an interplanetary long shot. The picture is a computer composite of images radioed to earth by Voyager 1 last March. The three monthlies (total circ...