Word: brother-in-law
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...difficult situation is made even more unpleasant because, according to custom, Ogwama should automatically become the wife of her brother-in-law. Ogwama refuses this unfair fate (evidently, she is a firm believer of the love match) and shortly thereafter inspires the scary wrath of Odibei (Crescent Muhammad '97), her mother-in-law. Odibei is especially interested in shuttling Ogwama to her eagerly awaiting son, since the marriage to her other son did not produce offspring. Unless you're an insensitive ogre, after about the first half-hour your sympathies lie with Ogwama and Uloko; you root for their love...
Those began to unravel in earnest on Saturday, Nov. 11, when Joe disappeared from National Airport in Washington. He had gone there with his wife's brother-in-law, ostensibly to meet the trustees of a $5 million family trust fund he claimed to have. Once there, the over-6-ft., almost-300-lb. Waldholtz slipped away, beginning six days on the run with the FBI in pursuit. After he surrendered on Friday in Washington, Waldholtz was released into the custody of a lawyer friend until he is called before a federal grand jury...
There are numerous elements to admire in this movie, but the strength of a mother in the face of restrictive tribal tradition stands out. When Neria's brother-in-law, Phineas, refuses to take her daughter to the hospital as she suffers from appendicitis, Neria carries her to the hospital on her back. Mawuru bravely explores the world of injustice and emerges with the scales of justice balanced...
...tenant of Kellynch, however, turns out to be Admiral Croft, the brother-in-law of Captain Wentworth, meaning that Wentworth and Anne will inevitably be thrust together. When Wentworth arrives, it seems as if he will soon be engaged to Louisa Musgrove, a high-spirited but silly girl who is Anne's opposite. Indeed, Anne's thoughtless sister Mary (Sophie Thompson) reports that Wentworth had said that "he would hardly have recognized her." It seems that she is condemned to watch in silence as the man she still loves is lost to her forever...
...Keaton the end came abruptly, sadly, in the late '20s. His producer, who was also his brother-in-law, sold him out, literally, to MGM, and Keaton lost control of his films. It was a crash that led to pained obscurity--as second banana to Jimmy Durante, gag writer for Red Skelton, waxwork to Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd., cracked mirror image to Chaplin in the 1952 Limelight. Keaton died at 70 in 1966. He never got to savor the happy ending that film history had planned: the rediscovery and restoration of his films, the flabbergasted smiles of today...