Word: father-in-law
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...teeth on. Hers was a background of manicured lawns, riding lessons and outings at the ballet. The Bouviers were an old Catholic family entrenched in New York society; her father, known as "Black Jack" because of his dark good looks, lived recklessly both in the stock market and in his dashing private life. Several of the men whom Jackie later found attractive -- her husband, her father-in-law Joseph Kennedy and, later, Aristotle Onassis -- bore some resemblance to her glamorous papa. Her mother Janet was steelier, both more conservative and more ambitious. Black Jack was an exuberant but careless investor...
...enough to make an otherwise competent production unforgettable, and the Medea that has been imported to Broadway from London climaxes with an astonishing tableau. After wreaking the most comprehensive revenge that a scorned wife has ever devised -- slaying her cheating husband's royal fiance and soon-to-be father-in-law, then slaughtering her sons so her husband's bloodline will die with him -- Medea sets sail for a new life. Most stagings leave her outside her home merely talking of departure. In director Jonathan Kent's version, a wall topples to reveal Diana Rigg apparently already at sea. Hunched...
...hard for me emotionally," Anne Puseysays. "I felt the beating was very wrong, but whenyou are not there to see the interaction youcannot make a judgment. My father-in-law took thatstep because he felt that the students were notgoing to leave...
...intriguing factor is that the plane was at one point owned by Seth Ward, the father-in-law of Webster Hubbell, then a law partner of Hillary's and now Reno's top deputy at the Justice Department. McDougal sold Ward the plane, and his S&L loaned him the money for the purchase, Ward told TIME, in order to keep the aircraft off Madison's books, where it might have aroused suspicion among regulators. Hubbell acted as counsel to his father-in-law in the deal, one of several connections with the thrift that have had the effect...
...said his father-in-law has been the victim of character assassination and has "met with tremendous persecution and almost universal misunderstanding...