Word: father-in-law
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...Administration. Not until last week did he announce the last of his 14 Cabinet appointments, but then his choice drew much praise. His selection: retired Admiral James Watkins, 60, an expert on nuclear power, former Chief of Naval Operations and once a long-shot prospect to become father-in-law of Britain's Prince Charles (Watkins' daughter Laura Jo had a romance with the Prince before marrying an American actor). Watkins' last Government job was as head of Ronald Reagan's AIDS commission; he showed a gift for drawing agreement from people with very diverse views by coaxing a surprisingly...
...Celebrations of the New World portrays a Fourth of July family gathering in Philadelphia, the first full-scale meeting of the narrator's relatives and those of his wife. The scene is crowded and confusing at first, but the focus eventually comes to rest on the father-in-law, Bernie Alazar, who is experiencing the progressive deterioration of Alzheimer's disease. Nothing can save Bernie in the long run, but this story, the best in the book, provides moments of touching recognition and redemption. Shacochis inserts, with no visible effort, an extraordinary amount of detail into his short fiction...
...your mother and your father-in-law are candidates for National Assembly seats. Why not your husband? A. Asif is making a sacrifice. For the sake of a harmonious...
...memorable event in the world of music. It was here that Richard Wagner, music's great megalomaniac, built an acoustically perfect theater to house his revolutionary music dramas; here that he produced the first Ring cycle in 1876; here that Wagner, his wife Cosima and his father-in-law Franz Liszt are buried; here that Wagner's grandson Wolfgang keeps alive the sacred flame. To Wagner lovers, Bayreuth is a holy place, the Ring a sacred ritual and the Festspielhaus a shrine...
Deaver's President is every bit the benignly self-assured, uncurious fellow portrayed by many less friendly observers. Deaver notes approvingly that Reagan was so fascinated by the craft of his neurosurgeon father-in-law, Dr. Loyal Davis, that he "could diagnose a brain tumor just by hearing the symptoms on a soap opera." On a soap opera...