Word: patriarchal
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...subcommittee investigating racketeering in the Teamsters, noticed Lowe's vivid and intimate pictures of the famous hearings and invited the photographer into the tumultuous households of Hickory Hill and Hyannis Port. His pictures of the family of Bobby and Ethel given to Old Joe for his birthday wowed the patriarch, who called Lowe and said he wanted him to do the same for his other son, Jack...
...quietly nonspecific stretch of the East Coast. The town was once dominated by Cosey's Hotel and Resort, a swanky getaway with "more handsome single men per square foot than anyplace outside Atlanta." But Cosey's is now a Gothic ruin, and Bill Cosey, its handsome, charismatic playa-patriarch, is long dead...
...other end of the park, retirees Joyce and Pat Busbee haven't had breakfast yet, but the 70-year-old patriarch already has his Sony Vaio revved up, ready to research a new motor home to replace the couple's luxury 40-ft. Country Coach. "It's the best thing since sliced bread," jokes Joyce, referring to the wireless service, not her 12-ft. living room, full-size tub or double-door fridge. Nice amenities, but after two years on the road, they most cherish the spontaneous instant messages sent via the Internet from their 10-year-old granddaughter...
When the Center got under way, nobody was predicting any such thing. The Rockefeller who built the place was not John D., the great, striding patriarch, but John Jr., his self-minimizing son. Ultra-prudent, teetotaling and possessing what Okrent calls a "clenched psyche," Junior--almost everybody called him that or, worse, Mr. Junior--nonetheless managed to launch the massive Rockefeller philanthropic operations. And when his advisers talked him into leasing 11 acres in midtown Manhattan, a deal that required paying $3.6 million a year in rent to Columbia University, he unflinchingly initiated the largest construction project in American history...
...consequence of the killing of baby girls is that many villages and towns lack brides for their young men. (In one of the film's sequences, a village patriarch pays dearly to marry his son off to a heavily veiled stranger who is ultimately revealed as a man.) So when the beautiful Kalki (Tulip Joshi) reaches a marriageable age and her father demands 100,000 rupees for his prize, a village father pays him 500,000 to make her the wife of all five of his grown sons. Each son will have one night a week with her, and father...