Word: patriarchate
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This professional namer--he never gets a name of his own--has been summoned to a small, geographically nonspecific town to arbitrate a dispute over its name. It used to be called Winthrop, after its 19th century patriarch, but a local software magnate is looking for something more hip and happening--"New Prospera" has been suggested. Also in the running is the town's original name, its Ur-name, chosen by the former slaves who founded it: Freedom...
...Henrickson (Bill Paxton) checks his calls. He has 16 messages. He's got three wives, three mortgages and seven kids. His father (Bruce Dern) suspects Bill's mother of poisoning him. Bill is opening a new branch of his Salt Lake City, Utah, hardware store, and his shady, polygamist-patriarch father-in-law Roman (Harry Dean Stanton) is demanding a cut. Then there's the matter of, er, keeping up with three wives. Pharmaceutical assistance is involved...
DIED. AL LEWIS, 95, actor best known as the cigar-chomping Grandpa on TV's The Munsters in the mid-'60s; in New York City. Lewis, who decades after the show ended regularly appeared in character as the Munsters' vampiric patriarch, was also a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show and a cantankerous 1998 Green Party candidate for New York Governor. He lost...
...Stone family is a stereotypical New England, bohemian-bourgeoisie brood with Craig T. Nelson (“Coach” and, most recently, the voice of Mr. Incredible in “The Incredibles”) as the patriarch and Hollywood’s hip-mom actress Diane Keaton (“Something’s Gotta Give”) as the matriarch...
...particularly interest them either. There are exceptions. The neo-orthodox theologian Karl Barth championed Joseph's role of taking care of Jesus. The black church in the U.S., says Robert Franklin, an expert on that topic at Atlanta's Emory University, has long felt a connection between Joseph as patriarch of an unexpectedly blended family and African-American slave history, in which men "found their own wives full with child and at the birth discovered the child was a mulatto." But for the most part, explains David Steinmetz, a religious historian at Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C., "Joseph plays...