Word: matronic
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...Juliet of the film's title is Fellini's wife, Giulietta Masina, exercising all of her rueful, clownish charm as a bourgeoise matron with marriage problems. Neither beautiful nor clever, and inhibited by an unshakable Catholic conscience, Giulietta is wounded by the discovery that her husband (Mario Pisu) has a mistress. She consults a seer, seeks refuge in spiritualism, tries to distract herself by befriending an elegant trollop (Sandra Milo) next door. Meanwhile, she begins to live more and more in fantasy - images of abstract evil, dreams of sexual abandon, phantoms of childhood fears. Not until...
...movie's boldest innovation is that the Broadway principals are allowed to repeat their roles: Maureen O'Sullivan as a small-town matron of grandmotherly age who haplessly becomes pregnant; and Paul Ford as her sixtyish mate, who reacts to his achievement with the dismay of a man who has accidentally set his garage on fire. All flab and fury, Ford ignites laughter on any occasion, whether he is donning dark glasses outside a layette shop or explaining at length that he likes "serious fun," such as tending to business down at the lumberyard: "Fun is when...
Rocks' least comfortable performer is Actress Kerr, whose fans may well wonder what a nice girl like Deborah is doing in a play like this. Wasted on farce, she sidles from gag to gag with the faintly startled air of a very proper matron who somehow finds herself pouring tea at a disreputable party...
...many readers, vacations mean a ritualistic return to the old favorites that an Edgartown, Mass., summer resident calls "come-as-you-are books." Cartoonist Al Capp chuckles himself to sleep by dipping into Martin Chuzzlewit or Little Dorrit. A sophisticated young matron on New York's Fire Island unabashedly begins her vacation with Frank Yerby's Pride's Castle and Ambler's A Coffin for Dimitrios. Another confirmed repeater is Author Barzini, who claims that "you can always open Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and find some wonderful sequence about a Byzantine emperor gouging...
This summer the Nude Wave finally washed onto U.S. beaches, and women from Los Angeles to Long Island have been wearing all manner of suits of which brevity is the chief feature. Explains one Westhampton, L.I. matron: "American fashion is now dominated by teenagers. They have the figures and the courage to wear these suits, and adults-happily or not-are following their lead." Philosophizes another bikini-ite: "We have been ex posed to these suits for so long, it is now acceptable to wear them. In fact, if you've got the figure, it is considered almost square...