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Even George H.W. Bush--the patriarch of the namesakes--is getting into the swing of things. Sources tell TIME that the former President, who once famously referred to his Mexican-American grandchildren, including George P., as "the little brown ones," recently urged his son's campaign to hold a national Hispanic event aimed at luring Hispanics away from the Democrats. The way things are going, the Republican Convention will be a fiesta de la familia...
...Beverly Hillbillies' patriarch 2. Forum greeting 3. Itinerary word 4. He warned that pressure to deploy missile defenses could lead to a new arms race 5. Org. that will create a Kosovo war-crimes court 6. Soccer's Hamm 7. Cockpit abbr. 8. Alchemy has called off its deal to buy this from BMW 9. Sub __ 10. Jai __ 11. Rebel __ 19. Gov't.-property overseer 21. Lake formed by Hoover Dam 22. Former name of Tokyo 23. Garment slit 24. Indonesian province that's the site of a trial of soldiers accused of massacre 25. MacLeod of The Love Boat...
Jones and his wife, Susan E. Tifft, have written two critically acclaimed books--The Patriarch, about the Bingham family, and The Trust, about the Ochs and Sulzberger family, which has owned The Times for more than a century...
DIED. LEE PETTY, 86, three-time NASCAR champion, winner of the first Daytona 500 and patriarch of a four-generation racing dynasty that includes his famous son Richard; in Greensboro...
...which never quite becomes the smoothly reciprocating engine Anderson (who did Boogie Nights) would like it to be. Indeed, only one of his tales is fully persuasive. That's the one about the Partridge family, which is not to be confused with the nice folks from '70s TV. The patriarch, Earl (Robards), is dying of cancer, a metaphor for decay that Anderson likes too much. Earl's trophy wife (Moore), who married him for his money, has decided she actually loves the old guy and is in a guilty frenzy to prove it. He, meantime, is desperate to reconcile with...