Word: brother-in-law
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...doubt" and "inevitability" and "get it over with" and "not happy about it, but . . ." and "between a rock and a hard place." Opinions came out modulated by sadness and resignation. Mary Tom, a legal secretary in San Francisco, related, "The situation really hit home with me when my brother-in-law, a nurse, went on active duty. I think war is imminent. I don't support it, and I never have. Bush has backed himself into a corner by giving them a deadline. The first strike will kill a lot of people on both sides. The sad thing is there...
...vision of a multiracial society living in harmony, the idea of an all-white ministate is gaining in appeal. The Orange Workers published a detailed map proposing a territory roughly covering the former Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State. Earlier, Carel Boshoff, Verwoerd's brother-in-law, proposed setting up a homeland called Orandee in the desolate northern Cape Province...
...enough? Now try switching instead to Maniac Mansion, a family sitcom that is not so much off the wall as out of this world. Dad is a mishap-prone inventor whose botched experiments have turned his brother-in-law into a housefly and his four-year-old son into a 250-lb. clone of Benjy in The Sound and the Fury. We learn these things in the show's 10th-anniversary special -- a nostalgia trip that takes place, oddly, on the program's first episode. Weirdest of all, the series is running, virtually unnoticed, on cable's Family Channel...
...literal sense. The premise is a throwback to that old Mary Hartman spinoff, Fernwood 2-Night: a housewife (Cynthia Stevenson) in the little town of Derby, Wis., has turned her living room into the set for a nightly talk show. It's a homey affair: her brother-in-law is the announcer; gray-haired Mrs. Battle, her old school nurse, is musical director; neighbors drop by to chat. So do real-life celebrities such as William Shatner and Florence Henderson...
...flight and international isolation is not "strangling" the country; rather, those actions are demoralizing and destabilizing Iraq, and rendering the place increasingly dysfunctional. In the hotel elevator, a prosperous businessman, fortyish and due to report for army duty in the morning, vows he will flee. "I have a brother-in-law in Chicago," he confides...