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...DIED. ELEANOR DALEY, 95, widow of former Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley; in Chicago. Daley was matriarch of a political family that includes sons William M. Daley, a former U.S. commerce secretary, and Richard M. Daley, Chicago's current mayor. Although rarely in the public eye, Daley campaigned behind the scenes for her husband, who ran the city for 21 years, and sons...
...parts she reenacted included her role as matriarch of a dysfunctional family in the Royal Tenenbaums and the frightening antagonist in The Witches...
...happened to make this announcement to the matriarch of a family of four, who had just finished transporting her loved ones and everything they own from a big house in Cambridge to a bigger house in Lexington. She gave me a death stare. Then she recommended that I start throwing out most of my belongings now, and continue the process for the rest of my life. “Keep it simple,” she said...
...September 20, Dunne/St. Martin's will publish a biography of W's ma: "Barbara Bush: Matriarch of a Dynasty" by Pamela Kilian, Scripps Howard News Service editor. Says Kirkus, "Full of praise for its subject, even with many qualifications: solely for fans of the Bush dynasty...
...lost her sister, father and brother as well. Dalsimer finds the recurring pain of these losses throughout Woolf’s writings, paying special attention to the way Woolf’s work deals with the death of her mother. Dalsimer sets the relationship between Mrs. Ramsay, the matriarch of the family in To The Lighthouse, and Lily Briscoe, the artist figure in the novel, as a paradigm for Woolf’s own relationship with her mother. In this way, Dalsimer is able to extrapolate and interpret the emotions that consumed Woolf throughout her development as a writer...