Word: matriarchal
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DIVORCING. PHYLICIA RASHAD, Cosby Show matriarch, and third husband AHMAD RASHAD, ex-Minnesota Viking and NBC sportscaster; in New York City...
...Waiting to Exhale author takes a multiperspective view of dysfunctional families with each member of the Price clan giving his or her own version of how screwed up they all are. The telling is led by Viola, the know-it-all matriarch and glue who holds her estranged husband Cecil and four far-flung children together. Their heavy load--incest, substance abuse, poverty, infidelity, death--makes this a soap opera, but it is leavened with a big dollop of sass...
Nancy Marchand 71 The Sopranos Mob matriarch won four Emmy Awards...
...house of design threw down its welcome mat for the matriarch of another as the Graduate School of Design (GSD) honored Rei Kawakubo of fashion mainstay Comme des Garons last Wednesday for "pushing the proverbial design envelope." Rei may draw outside the lines, but certainly the GSD's award ceremony held in her honor did not. Despite the celebrity element, the event proved to be austere and somewhat dull, probably less interesting than the classes normally held in the recently redone but still stark Gund Hall. The casual attendee yearned for a supermodel or two strutting down the aisles catwalk...
Iree Bowling, the central character of the film, is the matriarch of an extended family of 13 children, 30 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren...