Word: brother-in-law
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...FORTUNE COOKIE. As a TV cameraman who is mildly clipped while covering a football game, Jack Lemmon follows the zany signals called by his grasping brother-in-law Walter Matthau, a two-bit shyster with dreams of becoming a big-time chiseler. Nicknamed "Whiplash Willie," the illegal eagle stops at almost nothing to clip an insurance company of $1,000,000 in this comely comedy directed by Billy Wilder...
...Matthau), an ambulance chaser who, by the look of his crummy clothes, has been chasing them on his hands and knees. Willie's skin is as grey as the towel in a night-court lavatory, but his ideas are crisp and green. As the cameraman's brother-in-law, he loyally announces: "We're going for all the marbles, kid! You got a ringing in your ears and double vision...
Since then, the Senator has backed O'Connor far more strongly than, as titular party leader, he has to. His brother-in-law Stephen Smith is O'Connor's de facto campaign manager and seems to be getting on well with the O'Connor team. Kennedy staffers in key Upstate cities are spending all their time on the O'Connor campaign. The Senator himself will appear with O'Connor in places like Buffalo and Syracuse, for he knows that an O'Connor victory, on the strength of Kennedy bloc votes, will make the junior Senator unquestionably the strongest...
...other sources. When in New York, Bobby often calls on Columbia's Dean David Truman or ex-White House Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, spends hours discussing issues with them by way of clarifying his own thoughts. Constantly on the lookout for new academic and legal talent is Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith, who directs old Joe Kennedy's interests in New York...
...easy being Luci Johnson Nugent's brother-in-law, it can't be easy being a front-line Marine officer in Viet Nam, and it must be doubled in spades being both at the same time. Nevertheless, 1st Lieut. Gerard Nugent, 24, apparently has the situation very well in hand. Commanding Echo Company of the 2nd Battalion 3rd Marine Division, he led his men in a frontal assault on a Communist training camp 20 miles from Danang that killed about 70 Viet Cong, then moved on to silence a sniper nest in high trees near Battalion H.Q. before...