Word: matriarchic
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Under the Heel. As befits a beautician, Helena found one subject irresistible-herself. Over the years she was painted 30 times. The last portrait, by the British artist Graham Sutherland, shocked her most. It made her look, she said, like "an eagle-eyed matriarch." The portrait she most coveted escaped her. It was by Picasso. When he asked her age, she replied to his delight: "Older than you are!" But nothing pleased him. "You might not live long enough to finish it," warned Mme. Rubinstein, then 92. Picasso sketched away, tossed one on the floor. She bent to pick...
...VALLEY (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Barbara Stanwyck as an Old West matriarch...
...Matriarch McGinley trying to fool? She's more Friedan than Friedan...
...Southern aristocrat. They have (what else?) an idiot child. Hero Reeve Scott is a young Negro just returned from the Army, determined to fight for his rights and not let Henry Warren steal his patch of land away from him. Reeve's mother is (what else?) the heroic matriarch who long ago was Miss Julie-Ann's black mammy. There are elegant dinners and a dynamiting, a courtroom scene and a prefrontal lobotomy. Doom impends...
...Church. Paraguay's Pettirosi Market in the capital of Asuncion is built around a rustic brick chapel, and each morning when the market women troop past, they light candles, kneel down and pray, and place flowers on the altar. "Most men are drunken no-goods," says one market matriarch. "Priests are the only members of their sex I can respect...