Word: matriarchal
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DIED. Peggy Wood, 86, versatile singing actress who starred in half a century of Broadway plays but was best remembered as the warmhearted Norwegian matriarch in television's I Remember Mama series (1949-1957); of a stroke; in Stamford, Conn. Beginning as a chorus girl in Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta in 1910, she later moved on to the dramatic stage in both New York and London. Among her notable roles: Portia in The Merchant of Venice, George Bernard Shaw's Candida and Ruth, the jealous wife, in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit...
Much of "Let's Get Small" is very funny, but He doesn't make fun of society directly but packs his stories with non sequiturs and relates incidents that could never happen. He begins the Grandmother's Song with an innocent verse that any matriarch would be proud to hear her offspring sing...
...features a duck-billed platypus-"an egg-laying mammal that suckles its young," explains Punch-and the motto NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE. Not for her, anyway. She traveled to China several years ago with a granddaughter and playfully invited Chou En-lai to write for the Times; he declined. The matriarch rarely interferes in Arthur's affairs. "Sons either have an Oedipus complex about their mothers or hate the ole gal for giving them too much chicken soup," says she. "But then I believe in telling my children what I think." She did protest a story about sex at Barnard...
...recently acquired sixth husband, Author William Dufty, 60. "Biologically, a woman is younger and lives longer; it's the men who give up," asserted Gloria. "Of course, my sex life is very healthy." Should a grandmother of seven be talking that lustily? "I'm a matriarch now," exclaimed Swanson, "and I can say anything I want...
...some ways Rainer executed an about-face, doubling back to the art of Martha Graham, the domineering matriarch that modern dance rebelled against for 20 years. Like Graham, Rainer settled on emotion as the content of her work, and on her own persona as its driving force. She writes...