21.   Rebecca Pidgeon superbly underplays her role as a feminist, and Nigel Hawthorne is terrific as the family patriarch.

22.   Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the family patriarch, did not attend.

23.   The family had a comfortable life thanks to the family patriarch who works as a waiter in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and sent money home.

24.   The family patriarch promised a friendly White House if mob-run unions would provide enough muscle and cash to get out the Kennedy vote.

25.   The family patriarch, Walter Jr., is ill with cancer.

26.   The family patriarch, Louis Mendelssohn, was a wealthy architect and builder in Detroit.

27.   The family patriarch, who died last year, worked with legendary Atlanta golfer Bobby Jones to design Peachtree Golf Club and tinker with Augusta National.

28.   The Zell bid competes with one from a team made up of Goldman, Rockefeller family patriarch David Rockefeller and New York developer Tishman Speyer Properties LP.

29.   There was often a whisper of destiny in the family, and not only when George H. W. Bush was the family patriarch.

30.   Upon arrival, they learned to their horror that the family patriarch, Mau Van Lam, had died four days earlier.