Word: brother-in-law
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Augustine's brother-in-law, the M.P., is still dithering over Liberal Party and parliamentary infighting. Augustine himself roves through Prohibition America, falling in with a neither beautiful nor damned crowd of would-be Fitzgeraldian teenagers. He even trots off on an Arabian Nights adventure in Morocco. Effective and colorful as some of this is, what does it have to do with Hughes' larger theme? The interrelation between private and public realms seems to have broken down. The narrative tends to lurch from near-history to near-fiction ("But Hitler, Strasser-how could these distant rivalries ever matter...
...turned out last week, was a royal mistake. While the King was bathing his eyes with mud and mineral water at a thermal spa on the isle of Ischia off Naples, his kingdom was peremptorily converted into a republic. Leading the coup was his cousin and brother-in-law, ex-Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan...
...said, and needed a rest. Then he extended the enforced leave for another 30 days, announcing that the ministers' permanent secretaries would run things in their absence. Last week the eleven surviving ministers-five others had been fired, one quit in disgust, and another, Amin's brother-in-law, submitted his resignation by letter-filed into the presidential palace in Kampala for a 6 a.m. command breakfast. Those who showed up late, Big Daddy curtly announced, would be court-martialed...
...John Dean chose his former brother-in-law, Robert McCandless, 35. Dean and McCandless both married and divorced daughters of the late Democratic Senator Thomas Hennings, and McCandless has been a special counsel to the Democratic Party as well as a campaign aide to Hubert Humphrey. With that background McCandless would hardly shrink from a head-on attack against the Republican Administration. He is currently said to be concentrating on persuading federal prosecutors to grant Dean full immunity in return for his testimony about the involvement of others...
Wednesday was a big day for star gazers at the trial. Journalist I. F. Stone was there, for example, sitting in the defense section with his wife, whose brother-in-law is Ellsberg's chief defense lawyer. And there were movie stars, too: George Segal, Eva Marie Saint and Jane Fonda, all sitting with Ellsberg's wife Patricia in reserved front-row seats...