Word: matriarchal
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BOSTON--City officials and members of the Kennedy family joined yesterday to break ground for a rose garden dedicated to the matriarch of the clan, Rose Kennedy...
...family matriarch shifted in her seat, visibly bothered. "What I can't understand," the 73-year old Italian native and resident asked the few Americans at the table, "is why all of your countrymen were so supportive of the U.S. bombing of Libya...
...respective husbands (Ron Silver and Kenneth Welsh) and the aged mother who drives them crazy (Olympia Dukakis). Playwright Andrew Bergman has written lustily funny movies (Blazing Saddles, Fletch), but he places only ticktock jokework on the stage. Worse, he creates situations of real pathos and then anesthetizes them. The matriarch is 80, unable to get around without a walker, unwilling to be left alone for an hour. By the play's end, this coarse, undereducated widow of a house painter has won the heart of a 98-year-old superstar artist (Stefan Schnabel) reminiscent of Marc Chagall and has thereby...
...SEEMS like yesterday when audiences viewed another comedy of manners in the Lowell JCR, last spring's production of Noel Coward's Hayfever. The Lowell House Drama society must like this sort of theater. Like Hayfever, You Never Can Tell has it's share of outrageous children, a stubborn matriarch, and romantic entanglements. But Shaw, of course, must add a touch of class conflict, feminism and a little political commentary...
...British, with only a hint that the Dorns, apparently Jewish, belong to a community within a community. The characters are defined largely through their social behavior. Sofka: "A shy woman, virtuous and retiring, caring only for her % children, but determined to fulfil her role as duenna, as figurehead, as matriarch. This means presentation, panache, purpose and, in their train, dignity and responsibility; awesome concepts, borne permanently in mind." Alfred: "If he translates his predicament into fiction, if he views it as a pilgrimage or a perilous enterprise or an adventure, if, in fact, he thinks of himself as Henry...