Word: brother-in-law
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...fought through the civil rights wars with her husband, wants to sell. Not sell out, just abandon a pose of high-minded poverty that is not accomplishing anything, and move to a decent house in an integrated neighborhood. Carll won't budge. Then his sister and brother-in-law, affluent segregationists from Birmingham, are killed in a car accident. Their two children, mannerly young racists, move in with Carll and Jessie. More space is needed, and Carll acquiesces sulkily when Jessie finds a larger house in a middle-class neighborhood...
...plot, however, is operatic gold. Based on a play by Gabriele d'Annunzio, it recounts an episode from Dante's Inferno. Francesca (Soprano Renata Scotto) is tricked into marrying the deformed Gianciotto (Baritone Cornell MacNeil) when his handsome brother Paolo (Tenor Placido Domingo) comes courting in his place. Inevitably, though, wife and brother-in-law fall into an adulterous embrace and are discovered by Gianciotto, who murders them...
...people are sweet. A woman in work clothes surprised by visitors while hanging her laundry (Yugoslav dry cleaning, it flutters everywhere) appears the next moment in a beautiful red dress to offer coffee and slivovitz. Boots are left on the stoop, and slippers wait inside the door. Her brother-in-law, a more or less symmetrical giant named Momo, pours the plum marvelous drink while a child grinds
...such iniquities "could be so coldbloodedly related." Yet the tales so coolly told in court helped indict 44 major traffickers and convict 16. The man doing the talking was Leroy ("Nicky") Barnes, a.k.a. "Mr. Untouchable." Barnes fingered Frank James, his ex-partner in drug dealing, for ordering his brother-in-law ice-picked to death. James, said Barnes, employed a four-man hit team; one aspiring killer slew a random passer-by as an audition...
...friend Patrick Vizard, both 22 and experienced duck hunters, went into the Louisiana marshes bundled in thermal underwear and parkas. "They were frozen in water that had splashed into the boat from the winds. They had to be chipped out," says Hugh Lambert, Vizard's brother-in-law...