Word: matriarchal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victim of a weak national economy and a line of strong women. The latter included his grandmother, an un challenged matriarch of Morrisonville, Va.; his wife, an orphanage-hardened shopgirl; and especially his mother, who had a "passion for improving the male of the species, which in my case took the form of forcing me to 'make something of my self.' " She had him, at a tender age, delivering newspapers, flogging the Saturday Evening Post and, in preparation for a career in show business, taking banjo lessons...
...religion. Bush will say no more. It is too personal. He has become intrigued with Reagan's unfailing kindness and courtesy, which he believes lie at the heart of the President's continued popularity. Bush is reminded of his mother Dorothy, 81, the Bush clan's matriarch, who is also known for her generous nature. Reagan, insists Bush, understands better than most people in public life that a leader does not have to brutalize a person or strip him of dignity to get a point across...
...Hurt) after tucking sons Duncan and Walt into bed. Helen provides a steady and more serious influence throughout, and Roberta Muldoon (John Lithgow), the tight end-turned-transsexual effectively becomes the best friend a Garp could ever have. Even the puzzling Jenny Fields (Glenn Close), mother of Garp and matriarch of a fanatical feminist movement, displays a commitment to her son which contributes to the film's encouraging spirit...
...obliged, in the buff. "It was lovely, beautiful. I had the perfect figure for it," she says. The leaves of the calendar tumble to reveal the present. The young lady, now at the other end of life, is Bette Davis, 74, and she is playing Alice Vanderbilt, the imperious matriarch of that gilded clan in Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, an NBC mini-series for next season. In an interview with Playboy magazine, the actress recalls the result of her long ago stint as statuary inspiration: "I've heard it's still up there in a park some...
...tubes. After a coronary and a stroke, it is only a matter of time for Valeria. But in Corde's reminiscences of her. She is a strikingly vital character. "Great Valeria," the psychiatrist, the epitome of Old World class in a country of New Age brutality and philistinism, the matriarch who called the shots for a circle of loyal women spread out over thousands of miles, from Chicago to Bucharest. Corde comes to understand her more, to love...