Word: patriarch
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...together. His cause was doomed when Alderman Timothy Evans, a Washington disciple, rebuffed Jackson's appeal for black unity. With the black electorate split and black turnout low, Sawyer was easy prey in February's Democratic primary. He was humiliated by Daley, son of the city's late political patriarch, Richard J. Daley...
Congdon's Tales of the Lost Formicans takes a weepy topic that might easily have been a TV movie of the week and inverts it into a witty, goofy, almost anthropological look at humankind as viewed by aliens from outer space. The patriarch of a suburban blue-collar family is dying of Alzheimer's disease, while his daughter acts out anger over her divorce through petty crimes of feminist rage and his grandson runs away and ends up sleeping in shopping malls. The extraterrestrials are staging a sort of slide show to explain how human art, society and psychology work...
...human-rights activist. But the membership voted down 15 of them, which means that the academy's leaders must come up with new candidates, presumably including Sakharov this time. The Soviet Peace Committee, a goodwill and propaganda organization, was allotted five seats. Among those elected by the group was Patriarch Pimen, head of the Russian Orthodox Church...
Though it is too early to tell if the network has produced an Edsel, the bodywork so far looks good. Generations' actors are largely veterans. Taurean Blacque (Hill Street Blues) plays family patriarch Henry Marshall, owner of a chain of five Chicago ice-cream parlors. Lynn Hamilton (The Waltons) is Henry's mother-in-law, Vivian, who years earlier was a servant in the Whitmore mansion. Her former mistress, Pat Crowley (Dynasty), is the lawyer Rebecca < Whitmore, Marshall's attorney and a troubled divorcee. These three, along with members of both families, knot the skein of story lines in which...
...complete with ceremonial gilt swords. But Medina's departure was not quite so honorable as it seemed. Colombian police officials have told TIME that Medina was fired on orders from President Virgilio Barco Vargas after the general came under suspicion of being on the payroll of Pablo Escobar Gaviria, patriarch of one of the leading families of the Medellin drug cartel...