Word: patriarchalism
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...attraction here: Reepicheep, a mouse with some of the charming swagger of Antonio Banderas' Puss in Boots from the Shrek movies; stately tree warriors who come to Caspian's aid; magical leaves that swirl into a woman's shape; and a bearded water god who rises like some stern patriarch to drown a slew of infidels. Lots of cool stuff...
...hard to imagine more ill-fated births than those of Kerstin, Stefan and Felix Fritzl. In 1984, their father, Josef, the authoritarian patriarch of an already sprawling Austrian family, locked his teenage daughter Elisabeth into a converted nuclear shelter underneath his house in the town of Amstetten so he could rape her at will. His incestuous abuse led to the birth of seven children, three of whom he kept imprisoned underground with their mother. Until April 26, when Austrian authorities discovered Fritzl's lair, reality for those children stretched no further than their dank, windowless confines, their mother's memories...
...Peer Gynt, and by 1950 he had made his way to Hollywood. Director Cecil B. DeMille immediately saw the actor's appeal, casting him in The Greatest Show on Earth, then giving him the role of Moses in The Ten Commandments. At 32, Heston passed as the old patriarch and aced the movie's crucial scene: Moses holding his staff above his head, parting the waters of the Red Sea and commanding the Israelites to walk on through...
William F. Buckley, the majestic patriarch of modern American conservatism, died yesterday at the genteel old age of 82. He was one of the last truly charismatic public intellectuals—and in this sense his passing should be lamented by anyone nostalgic for those days when ideas and the “life-of-the-mind” still mattered. Buckley was certainly an artifact of this dwindling era: He famously lost his temper on national television and blustered, in his droll blue-blood Connecticut brogue, “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi...
...certainly looked impressive. Presidents, Prime Ministers and foreign secretaries, trailed by their entourages, bustled through the lobby of Madrid's Municipal Convention Center this week. Religious leaders wearing turbans, yarmulkes, head scarves, and the huge ornate crosses of the Ethiopian Patriarch lined the escalators. Media luminaries from NBC's Tom Brokaw to al-Jazeera's Ghida Fahkry-Khane held forth on pressing issues. But an unspoken question hung over the first Alliance of Civilizations Annual Forum: could such a gathering lead to real change...