Word: matriarch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such a metaphor is available in Driving Miss Daisy. If you look hard, you can find in this account of the 25-year relationship between Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy), a genteel Southern, Jewish matriarch, and her black chauffeur, Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman), a microcosmic study of changing racial attitudes in a crucial time and place (Atlanta, circa 1948-73). What you will not find in this marvelously understated movie is overtly inspirational comments on that subject, broad sentimentality or the slightest pomposity about its own mission. In other words, Alfred Uhry's adaptation of his Pulitzer-prizewinning play aspires more...
...Brook, N.Y. "But the trade-offs and sacrifices a woman has to make are far greater than a man's." Lo Galbo once met Steinem at an awards dinner and demanded to know, "Why didn't you tell us that it was going to be like this?" The matriarch of Ms. magazine answered with admirable candor: "Well, we didn't know...
...NIGHTINGALE SANG (PBS, Oct. 15, 9 p.m. on most stations). Joan Plowright plays the matriarch of a working-class British family during World War II in this adaptation of C.P. Taylor's play, which launches a new season for Masterpiece Theater...
...problem is that the central character, who is a writer and who presumably stands in for the author, is almost devoid of particularity: his only trait is drunkenness. On the plus side were pungent dialogue, believable family conflict and forgiveness, and deft performances by Anne Pitoniak as a mouthy matriarch and Bob Burrus as her sly brother-in-law. The other play of promise, Charlene Redick's slight but touching Autumn Elegy, depicts a man long withdrawn from the world and his protective wife, now fatally...
...account of confrontations with her father, chairman of the board Barry Bingham, and her brother, publisher Barry Bingham Jr., as well as her versions of family and office politics, is too one-sided to be wholly plausible. Bingham's relations with her mother ring truer. At one point the matriarch is quoted as asking why her family could not be happy, since they were all rich, intelligent and beautiful. It is a fair question whose incomplete answer can be found in this resentful and blinkered book...