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Prosecutor Pamela Bozanich began her closing argument last Wednesday by tacking a single picture to the courtroom bulletin board. The full-color glossy showed the TV room of the Menendez mansion in Beverly Hills, California, patriarch Jose lifeless on a couch, his wife Kitty in a smashed and bloodied heap on the floor. In blunt language that veered from the schoolmarmish to the sarcastic, Bozanich delivered her message: "Lyle Menendez, accompanied by his brother, planned this murder . . . this was an intentional killing...
...Yale is not where the best football in the Ivy League is played. For the last several years that honor has belonged to Dartmouth, the patriarch of Ancient Eight football and the three-time defending Ivy League champion...
...Pets or Meat" is a perfect primer for the final short of the series, Mike Leigh's "A Sense of History," where we follow an English patriarch on a walking tour of his estate as he delivers a monologue on its history. Actor Jim Broadbent gives a superb performance as the horrifyingly funny Lord Earl of Leete. Speaking coolly of more than a few unspeakable acts he has committed in order to maintain the integrity of the estate, the Earl declares his father "a nasty booby of a man who I hated ferociously," his mother "stupid," and his brother "decidedly...
...patriarch of a clan that included a dragon named Spot and a vampire grandfather, Gwynne was the star of a series widely regarded to be a lighter version of "The Addams Family," which ran at the same time...
...setback left business leaders and jet-setters abuzz over the billionaire's misfortunes. Says Baron Edmond de Rothschild, patriarch of the French banking dynasty: "Karim, like so many others, has been caught in a cyclical downturn more severe than any we have seen in Europe since the end of World...