Word: schoolmarming
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...adventure, lures the painter to her and Vicky's table, and Juan Antonio, ever the gracious roue, proposes that the Americans accompany him to the town of Oviedo. "We'll eat well, we'll drink good wine, we will make love." "Who will make love?" asks Vicky with a schoolmarm's moral skepticism. "Hopefully, the three of us," he purrs...
...adventure, lures the painter to her and Vicky's table, and Juan Antonio, ever the gracious roue, proposes that the Americans accompany him to the town of Oviedo. "We'll eat well, we'll drink good wine, we will make love." "Who will make love?" asks Vicky with a schoolmarm's moral skepticism. "Hopefully, the three of us," he purrs...
...concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas says he is all for this, but he comes at the issue from left field or, more accurately, from somewhere in the 18th century. Thomas plays the crotchety schoolmarm, proclaiming that students should not have any free-speech rights in school. In the good old days, he writes, "teachers taught, and students listened. Teachers commanded, and students obeyed. Teachers did not rely solely on the power of ideas to persuade; they relied on discipline to maintain order." Spare the rod, he concludes, and spoil that little dickens Joseph Frederick...
...Amish live, thanks to that movie Witness. I figured I'd put out a call to the Amish's publicist and hear a pleasant tale about how Ezekiel is planning a big wedding and now that Mrs. Ezekiel is taking time off, the town will be getting a new schoolmarm. At worst, I thought maybe I'd discover that Weird Al Yankovic was poking at them again, planning something like Let's Get It Amish in Here. I quickly learned that information is not so easy to ferret out from the Amish, since it turns out they don't have...
Jackson’s Blanche, meanwhile, has her own novel spin. As the deranged schoolmarm on the run from a string of sexual indiscretions, Jackson doesn’t take the typical Blanche route and slide into madness during the play; rather, Jackson’s Blanche has fully snapped long before she comes on stage. All of her gestures are heedlessly artificial; all of her white lies are little eruptions of lunacy. Jackson never quite sells this Blanche; it’s a technically skilled performance, but her choices are always a little too easy—the ones...