Word: daughter-in-law
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...director's broadest progression away from both adolescent psychological drama and baroque imagery, towards a mature acceptance of emotional struggle and transformation, and a pure film style based on character. Dealing with an aging doctor's recognition of his sins during a trip to Stockholm taken with his daughter-in-law, the film develops in vignettes suggested by the scenes which remind the doctor of his youth. It is not as piercing as such later Bergman films as Persons and A Passion, but it is more hopeful, and thus perhaps more satisfying. Victor Sjosfrom's performance as the doctor...
...police sent a 17-year-old girl tricked out with a hidden radio into the home of Literary Critic Leslie Fiedler, they heard enough talk about marijuana, they said, to have reason to move in and arrest half a dozen people. Two of Fiedler's sons, a daughter-in-law and two other young men pleaded guilty to possession of pot; they received fines or were placed on probation. Fiedler and his wife were convicted in 1970 of maintaining premises where marijuana was used; he got six months and she was fined...
...school who is about to be posted to Berlin as the new U.S. naval attaché. The book ends a few days after Pearl Harbor. By that time Henry has served Franklin Roosevelt as a special observer in Germany, Britain and Russia, acquired a pregnant Jewish daughter-in-law who is still trying to escape from Nazi Europe, refused to give his foolish, flighty wife a divorce, and seen his first battleship command, the U.S.S. California, blasted by Japanese torpedoes before he can even go aboard...
...that Washington, unlike New York, is not so overloaded with things to do "that you just give up on everything." He hopes to finish the sequel to The Winds of War within three years, but will say little more about it than that. Readers, remembering that pregnant Jewish daughter-in-law about to escape to Israel, may reasonably hope for at least a taste of Jaffa oranges...
...alias of J. Frank Dalton. After meeting Dalton in 1948, Turilli opened the Jesse James Museum in Stanton and published a book arguing his thesis. In 1967 Turilli announced on a television program that he would pay $10,000 to anyone who could prove him wrong. Stella James, daughter-in-law of the outlaw, and her two daughters tried to collect after supplying affidavits from James family members that Jesse had indeed died in 1882. When Turilli refused to pay, the women sued and won in the Franklin County circuit court. The verdict, recently upheld on appeal, put the courts...