Word: matriarchal
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...with later play dates as well), is indeed a rarity. It depicts a family of Native Americans, a culture seldom if ever explored on TV outside Discovery-channel documentaries. Displaced from a reservation to a gang-infested California town, Mollie (Sheila Tousey), the widowed matriarch, tries to quell her rage with drink; but the story ultimately belongs to her eldest daughter Justine (Deeny Dakota), who is battling her own history of despair. The teenager has never known her natural father, but when she finds him, her pain is deepened: he is also the father of the only gentle suitor...
...recently departed Sullivan. Last week Peretz interviewed Joseph Nocera, of the Washington Monthly and FORTUNE. He joins a list of semifamous, boldface names such as Stephanopoulos and Eric Breindel (editorial-page editor of the New York Post and significant other of Lally Weymouth, daughter of Washington Post matriarch Katharine Graham); and wise guys like Michael Lewis, who filed fascinating dispatches from the campaign trail, including information on his own body odor; and Jacob Weisberg, probably the most brilliant young fogy to pass through the magazine since Michael Kinsley; and Mickey Kaus, author of a book on welfare reform...
...this heavy breathing obscures the fact that except for the color of its stars, Exhale is fairly standard Hollywood pap--sort of Steel Magnolias in black face. Its biggest virtue is that there is not a struggling welfare mama, sassy street-corner "ho" or domineering matriarch in sight. Indeed for all the predictable carping from black men about the supposed bashing of their sex in Exhale, it is middle-class black women who take the real beating. Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett, Loretta Devine and Lela Rochon play to a new black female stereotype that is in some ways more damaging...
Unofficially, the Streak probably began in the late '60s in the basement of the Ripken household, by then in Aberdeen, Maryland. Says Vi Ripken, the matriarch of the Ripken clan (daughter Ellen, sons Cal Jr., Fred and Billy): "I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard 'Just one more game, Mom.' The kids would be playing Ping-Pong in the basement, and it was always a struggle to get them to come upstairs for dinner, and even more of a struggle to get them to go to bed. Nobody liked to end the night on a loss...
...children immunized in the developing world rose from 20% to 80%. He helped formulate the 1989 U.N. Convention of the Rights of the Child, which recognized the political and economic rights of children. Grant received the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994. DIED. ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY, 104, matriarch of America's foremost political family, whose indomitable will and unshakable faith sustained her through the many tragedies that befell the Kennedys; in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. The oldest daughter of Boston Mayor John F. (``Honey Fitz'') Fitzgerald, Rose attended convent schools in Boston and Europe. At 24 she married Joseph...