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Formula One racing would remain on free TV. In addition, Kirch said it could yet reach an agreement with the carmakers that would give them a share of the sport's rights under the current structure. But even as the two groups issued their statements, Formula One's formidable patriarch, Bernie Ecclestone, continued to watch from the shadows. In a sport that generates $7.5 billion in annual revenue, the competi-tion is always intense...
After the death of “mean and surly” family patriarch Daddy Bud, the Slocumbs congregate in the back-water Southern town where Daddy Bud and his wife initially settled down to raise their kids, hoping to lean on one another for support. However, when arguments begin erupting early on upon the family’s arrival on in the film, it is clear that the funeral is going to be a fiasco...
...star-vehicle sitcom train of 2000-01 sputters on. The always adorable Joan Cusack is betrayed by the relationship comedy Joan, which cranks up her neurotic cuteness to clinically diagnosable levels and plays a little like a live-action version of Cathy. Damon Wayans fares better as a besieged patriarch in Wife, but it too visibly strains to be a 21st century Cosby Show, less because of the bourgie African-American milieu than because of the tiredly wisecracking Huxtabilitude it shoehorns the acerbic Wayans into...
Dale didn't ask for much else, though. In fact, love him or hate him, as the patriarch of NASCAR racing he was often the one who provided the good luck, protection or confidence. He enjoyed his on-track persona as the Intimidator, and, yes, he liked to push people to their limits--or to the side of the track, if necessary. All the same, he was the standard-bearer for professional drivers. On the day he died, he spoke his last words to the pit crew, telling them to relay advice to his teammates--my brother...
...first third of the book describes the gradual downfall of Solomon Dorai, the patriarch of the clan, in the fictional village of Chevathar, famous for its succulently sweet blue mangoes. After he dies in the early 1900s in a fateful clash between castes, his two sons leave home. One, the rebellious and violent Aaron, is a daredevil who eventually ends up joining the revolt against the British. The quiet elder brother Daniel takes another path: banished from the family for not fighting against the lower castes, he rejects politics, including Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent independence movement, and becomes a successful...