Word: matriarchic
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...financial matriarch has carefully tracked recessions, studied boom-and-bust trends and spent her life - all 93 years - mastering the intricacies of the monetary system and banking world. She's worked as an economist with the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1941 and now serves as an adjunct professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She recently spoke with TIME contributing editor Janet Morrissey. (See pictures of the stock-market crash...
...less of a revelation, a revisiting of familiar types and scenarios that are nicely executed but not exactly relevant beyond the pleasure of nostalgia. The Whittaker family members are classic examples of interwar, edging-toward-shabby English gentry, ready to be jolted into 20th century reality. The scissors-sharp matriarch (Kristen Scott Thomas) thoroughly disapproves of her son John's (Ben Barnes) taste in brides. He was supposed to marry Sarah (Charlotte Riley), the girl from the next castle over, who could have restored the family to its former glory. Instead he shows up with Larita, a race-car-driving...
...Picasso's lovers, and Kimberly Brooks, the wife of actor Albert Brooks. Isabella's room is covered with photographs by Annie Leibovitz. Most members of the house staff are women - Huffington even uses her housekeeper as chauffeur when necessary. "My mom's not good at driving," Isabella says. The matriarch is a deft hostess; there's always something to eat and, in the way of female gathering places, lots of conversation...
...center stage, both as the name of the rundown adult film theatre that serves as the Pineda clan’s home and sole source of income, and as the core group responsible for the film’s relational dilemmas. Set against the background of a lawsuit between matriarch Nanay Flor (Gina Pareño) and her estranged husband, the film displays a day in the life of her large extended family’s impoverished existence. Her daughter Nayda (Jacklyn Jose) resents the unbreakable ties to this home that an unexpected pregnancy (and the ensuing marriage) reinforced...
...labor unions, who warned that the Schaeffler Group was biting off more than it could chew. Indeed, it soon came under immense pressure as the global financial crisis slammed headlong into the German car industry and orders dried up almost overnight. By the end of 2008, the once proud matriarch was seen in tears on German television, leading employees in a demonstration to prod the government to bail out her hapless clan and save thousands of jobs. But given the Schaeffler Group's "greed is good" image, it was no surprise that Chancellor Angela Merkel said nein...