Word: patriarchal
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...young couple (Louise Ober and Mark Jenkins) are simple and skilled enough to give the story some credence, but it is John McLiam as the bitter patriarch who grants it soul. It is a mark of his intelligence that he makes his tilted, villainous part understandable, and astonishingly sympathetic...
...Died. Patriarch Alexei, 92, head of the Russian Orthodox Church since 1945; in Moscow. Patriarch Alexei guided the Russian church during the postwar years as it came to terms with the atheistic Soviet state...
...first hierarchy that establishes itself in a new area-and the Russians have had a diocese in North America since 1840. The Greeks, who did not establish their American archdiocese until 1921, insist that other Orthodox canons give jurisdiction over all believers in the "diaspora churches" to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Athenagoras I, first among equals of the world's Orthodox bishops...
...protagonist is a black detective named Jonah Rhodes. He was killed in a riot before the first episode, and the story unreels in flashbacks from his diary. Jonah, at 35, is patriarch of a family of 13, including his troublemaking dropout brother, two deaf-mutes and his aunt and uncle, who are welfare applicants. In the beginning, he attends night law school and tries to make it within the structure. He becomes increasingly militant as he encounters usurious used-car dealers, unscrupulous real estate men and venal cops down at precinct headquarters. The whites, however, come off as no more...
...hear something." ··· "I have given you to be a light unto the nations," proclaims Isaiah 42:6. And since Isaiah is the favorite prophet of that light unto Israel, David Ben-Gurion, a Swiss company used 42-6 as the title of a film on the patriarch's life. It was the first movie that Ben-Gurion, 83, had ever sat all the way through. Said he: "It's almost like it was." ··· If Katharine Hepburn could make it in Coco, why not Lauren Bacall in Applause? So the voice coaches...