Search Details

Word: brother-in-law (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...carefully programmed knockabout farce, The Ritz has been adapted with only slight modification from Terrence McNally's Broadway hit. The insanity centers around a small-time Italian businessman named Gaetano Proclo (Jack Weston). On the run from a mobster brother-in-law, Gaetano lies low in what he considers a suitably obscure hideout. The place even has a reassuringly classy name-the Ritz. Gaetano is from Cleveland, so he can be forgiven his naiveté about the Manhattan demimonde. He suspects all is not well, however, when the Ritz turns out to be an elaborate bathhouse patronized exclusively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bubble Bath | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...never be sure of anyone at the Ritz-not Carmine Vespucci (Jerry Stiller), the homicidal brother-in-law, not even Vivian Proclo (Kaye Ballard), Gaetano's hysterical wife-but there is one thing certain: despite stiff competition from a very funny Jack Weston, Rita Moreno runs off with the movie, stashed under Googie's unconvincing wig. It is a combustible comic performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bubble Bath | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...family. The toothbrush-mustached prince, a naturalized British subject since 1951, became a highly successful London realtor. He met Lee Bouvier Canfield in 1957. After divorcing their respective mates, they were married in 1959, and one year later Radziwill campaigned in U.S. Polish communities for his brother-in-law, Presidential Aspirant John F. Kennedy. The Radziwills, who had two children, were divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 12, 1976 | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...other embarrassment involved Carter family members. Several weeks ago, Brother-in-Law Walter G. Spann sold to seven south Georgians, for less than $1,000, half an acre of land near the Carter peanut warehouse in Plains. Carter discovered, much to his dismay, that the investors were trying to turn a quick buck by selling the land as 1-sq.-in. "peanut farms" for $5 each, complete with red-white-and-blue certificates of ownership. One of his sisters, Gloria Carter Spann, bought the first of the several hundred little inches that have already been sold, and her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Learning to Live with Jimmy | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

...Lake Ontario at the U.S. Sailing Center, when some 36 Tempests race for the right to be the one boat to represent the United States in the Tempest class, one of six separate classes at the 1976 Olympics at Kingston, Ontario. Berg and Schoettle, Derek Bok's brother-in-law, want to be in that boat...

Author: By William E. Stedman, | Title: Berg Rejoins Race for Olympic Berth | 5/1/1976 | See Source »

Previous | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | Next