Word: matriarchic
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...obliged, in the buff. "It was lovely, beautiful. I had the perfect figure for it," she says. The leaves of the calendar tumble to reveal the present. The young lady, now at the other end of life, is Bette Davis, 74, and she is playing Alice Vanderbilt, the imperious matriarch of that gilded clan in Little Gloria . . . Happy at Last, an NBC mini-series for next season. In an interview with Playboy magazine, the actress recalls the result of her long ago stint as statuary inspiration: "I've heard it's still up there in a park some...
...tubes. After a coronary and a stroke, it is only a matter of time for Valeria. But in Corde's reminiscences of her. She is a strikingly vital character. "Great Valeria," the psychiatrist, the epitome of Old World class in a country of New Age brutality and philistinism, the matriarch who called the shots for a circle of loyal women spread out over thousands of miles, from Chicago to Bucharest. Corde comes to understand her more, to love...
DIED. Mattie Talmadge, 100, proud, wizened, indomitable matriarch of Georgia's most prominent 20th century political dynasty (Husband Gene was elected Governor four times, and Son Herman served as Governor for seven years and four terms as U.S. Senator); in McRae, Ga. Six days after the Talmadges arrived at the Governor's mansion in 1933, "Miss Mit," refusing to shuck her rural demeanor, returned to the family's McRae plantation because she was homesick for the cows and chickens. She raised eyebrows again in 1936 when she spurned Eleanor Roosevelt's invitation to the White House...
DIED. Frederika Louise of Hannover, 63, beautiful, domineering, German-born Queen of Greece from 1947 until the death of her husband King Paul in 1964, mother of exiled King Constantine and strong-willed matriarch whose imperious demands and interventions in Greek politics sent mobs into Athens' streets and might have helped pave the way for the monarchy's overthrow in 1967; of heart failure after surgery; in Madrid, where she was visiting her daughter Queen Sofia of Spain...
...over" on television. "Just as young as ever," according to her proud son, the wrinkled first mother hasn't lost a step in the last 14 years, since she went to India for the Peace Corps at age 68. Next, Carter praised Rose Kennedy, the 90-year-old Massachusetts matriarch, who he said "epitomizes the meaning of a family and the meaning of faith." Nods and smiles all around, from young and old, both in the community center gynmasium and outside in Prince Street and Polcari Playground...