Tables of elderly
black matrons in their Sunday finest buzz with neighborhood gossip, while just a few feet away union reps pass the inexpensive red wine to their wives, and elsewhere unreserved tables of strangers make nice with college students, entrepreneurs, government workers — white, black, and Hispanic — all bonding over their common hopes for the city.
Not exact matches
Pieter Dirk Uys, a cabaret satirist who often does his stand - up routines in drag, plays an upper - class «English»
matron who between bon - bons confesses her enormous hatred of apartheid - and of
blacks, too, of course.
The confidence with which she moved into the world as a
black middleclass
matron suggests to me that she thought herself married to a light - skinned
black man.