Word: brother-in-law
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...second-longest role of Cassius, Brutus' brother-in-law who originates the murder plot, a bearded Harris Yulin makes his position more plausible and less villainous than we usually see--and perhaps it should be said that there are no thorough villains in this play, except for the gang that lynches a poor poet merely for having the same name as one of the conspirators...
Then there are the in-laws and lesser relatives. Last month the prime ministership was held by Manea Manescu, husband of Ceauşescu's sister Maria. When he retired because of ill health, the job went to another brother-in-law, Ilie Verdeţ husband of Ceauşescu's sister Reghina. Three other family members are Deputy Prime Ministers, including Elena's brother Gheorghe Petrescu; he is in charge of Rumania's arms-making industry...
...Jameson, just below the Canadian border. The author's usual characters are on hand: the old commissaris, who has arrived in the U.S. to help his sister settle her affairs after her husband's sudden death, and his young sergeant, Rinus de Gier. The commissaris' brother-in-law is only one of several people who have lived on a peninsula called Cape Orca and who died or disappeared, leaving the land a cursed place. The motive for all this is not very deep. The story would not be ten able if the local sheriff were...
...challenged by Aniello Dellacroce (translation: Little Lamb of the Cross), who is one of the Mob's most feared executioners and longtime second in command to Carlo Gambino. The wily Dellacroce, 63, paid his respects to Gambino's memory by letting the late capo's brother-in-law, Paul Castellano, remain titular head of the family, while Dellacroce was elevated to the Mafia's ruling commission last summer. He emerged as the most powerful U.S. mobster...
...husband of Czar Alexander II's daughter, the Oxford-educated Obolensky fled his native country after battling Bolsheviks as a guerrilla fighter. The tall, mustachioed aristocrat subsequently divorced Princess Catherine, married the daughter of American Financier John Jacob Astor, settled in the U.S. and worked with his brother-in-law, the real estate entrepreneur Vincent Astor. During World War II, Obolensky at 53 became the U.S. Army's oldest paratrooper and earned the rank of colonel. He started his own public relations firm in New York in 1949, handling accounts like Piper-Heidsieck champagne. "Serge," a friend once...