Word: daughter-in-law
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Meanwhile, Louis's scientific and activist legacy is carried on by son Richard and daughter-in-law Meave. Among Rich ard's major finds are further evidence of Homo habilis and, with Alan Walker in 1984, "Turkana Boy," a 1.6 million-year-old skeleton of a strapping, adolescent Homo erectus. As director of the Kenya Wildlife Service from 1989 to 1994, Richard revitalized the country's national parks and deterred poachers, but he made political enemies in the process. As combative and tough as his father, he has survived a kidney transplant and the loss of both legs below...
...Missing," Lemmon plays ED Horman, a conservative American businessman whose son, residing in Chile, disappears a few days after the 1973 military coup that brought General Pinochet to power. Horman travels to Chile and, along with his daughter-in-law, Beth (Sissy Spacek), tries to find out what happened...
Horman has an unshakable faith in the American way and whole-heartedly disapproves of his son's and his daughter-in-law's left-wing politics and counterculture ways. However, little by little he realizes that the American authorities are giving him the run-around, and eventually discovers that the American government is almost wholly responsible for his son's disappearance and execution. Along the way to these discoveries, Horman begins to sympathize with Beth and his missing son, and comes to the conclusion that they weren't pinko flower children...
...nine children, fiercely ambitious for them. And she withstood the misfortunes of her life with fortitude. But to call her a matriarch and leave it at that shows how much we forget. It was Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy--more than her brash and dashing husband, more than the glamorous daughter-in-law she outlived, even more than her martyred sons--who forged the Kennedy character. It was Rose Kennedy, in reality, who played mythmaker to America's most mythic clan...
...over. She outlived four of her children and a husband who loved and humiliated her. She endured the haunting gossip and relentless scrutiny accorded all her family. With strictness, with humor, with a sense of style at once down-to-earth and every bit a match for her daughter-in-law Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Rose ruled and shaped the clan when sometimes it all must have been too much for her. Jackie once described Rose speaking of her life's sorrows: ``Her voice began to sort of break, and she had to stop. Then she took my hand and squeezed...