Word: father-in-law
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...RODEO HERO SHOULD BE. He rides tall in the saddle. He can hang on to a bucking bull with the best of them. He can milk a wild cow, and he's handy with a gun--after all, he's serving a life sentence for killing his father-in-law with a rifle...
After graduating in 1955, Harrison moved acrossthe Charles River to attend Harvard BusinessSchool. But after a year, with some encouragementfrom his late father-in-law, a journalist,Harrison went to Florida as a printer...
...life, and Shea, a living, sweating man with clenched fists hanging out of his shirtsleeves, is the central figure of his own tumultuous life, not of some historical tableau. The author's use of language is a fresh breeze on a hot day. Shea's windbag of a father-in-law is a "self-important old streak of misery." And when Shea's sister-in-law is asked whether she loves a certain scamp and charmer, she replies, "What an idiot question! I could put the darling little fellow in my pocket and walk the earth's highways with...
...sure bet to succeed Socialist President Francois Mitterrand in the April 23 election, Gaullist Prime Minister Edouard Balladur has recently seen his high poll ratings nose-dive. His campaign was badly damaged by revelations that Pasqua, a Balladur supporter, authorized an illegal wiretap last December on the father-in-law of a judge investigating an illegal campaign-funding scheme in Pasqua's district west of Paris...
Musically, the performance at the Met is excellent. Possessing a voice that is lithe and ripe, mezzo-soprano Maria Ewing was born to sing the title role, and she delivers a performance of untamed carnality. Slovak bass Sergei Koptchak is outstanding as her lecherous father-in-law, and Russian tenor Vladimir Galouzine is appropriately ardent as the lover. In the pit, conductor James Conlon and the Met orchestra rejoice in the score's raw power...