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...COCKTAIL HOUR. Nancy Marchand is at her tragicomic best off-Broadway as a Wasp matriarch in an elegant comedy by A.R. Gurney, author of The Dining Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Nov. 7, 1988 | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...ride down a mountain on a warrior's shield (done better in The Living Daylights), on the whole tussle of light and dark. The only twist here is that the crucial tug of wills is between two women, the good witch and the bad, over a female messiah. One matriarch fights another in an apocalyptic biddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Empire Strikes Out WILLOW | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

MARIO PUZO'S THE FORTUNATE PILGRIM (NBC, beginning April 3, 9 p.m. EST). In a mini-series spanning nearly 30 years, Sophia Loren plays the stalwart matriarch of an Italian-immigrant family in pursuit of the American dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Apr. 4, 1988 | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

Martha Moore successfully draws the audience into Amanda's twisted sense of old-fashioned reality. Moore combines just the right amount of strength and vulnerability to make Amanda the pitiable matriarch Williams' script intends her to be. Although Jim, played by Anthony Hatch, only appears in the second half of the show, he plays well the role of Amanda's ideal match for Laura...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: A Touch Of Glass | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

Five of the hijackers, who were led by two brothers and their mother, died in the assault and subsequent fire aboard the jetliner on Tuesday, as did three passengers and a stewardess, Tass said. Two of the sky pirates committed suicide and the matriarch, once honored as a Hero Mother of the Soviet Union, was shot dead by family members, the official news agency said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Family of Soviet Musicians Hijacks Plane | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

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