Word: mother-in-law
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...made even more unpleasant because, according to custom, Ogwama should automatically become the wife of her brother-in-law. Ogwama refuses this unfair fate (evidently, she is a firm believer of the love match) and shortly thereafter inspires the scary wrath of Odibei (Crescent Muhammad '97), her mother-in-law. Odibei is especially interested in shuttling Ogwama to her eagerly awaiting son, since the marriage to her other son did not produce offspring. Unless you're an insensitive ogre, after about the first half-hour your sympathies lie with Ogwama and Uloko; you root for their love-- conveyed convincingly...
...thoroughly dehumanizing the princess business really is. Her interview on bbc last month was full of husky-voiced self-pity and dewy gazes from a coquettishly down-tucked head. But there wasn't the slightest awareness that her problems go beyond an adulterous husband and an emotionally disabled mother-in-law. She even seems to think the reason Charles dislikes her is that she outshines him at what she calls their "work," meaning presumably the daily round of ribbon cuttings and charity dinners. But can't she see that her work is over, and was the moment the nanny whisked...
...articulate (albeit she said albeit five times in half an hour); it's not that she failed to come off as the loony blue-blood bimbo her detractors have made her out to be. What was shocking was that she did an interview at all, telling neither her mother-in-law nor her own press secretary until it was in the can. She's playing by her own rules...
Hill, accompanied by his wife Courtney Kennedy Hill and mother-in-law Ethel Kennedy, window of Robert E. Kennedy '48, was thronged by the crowd of about 100. Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 was among those attending...
Patti urges Laura and Mark to continue discussing Laura's jealousy when they are alone together. Soon the Thompsons hit upon other prickly topics: Mark's compulsive neatness and Laura's worry that her future mother-in-law has reservations about the pending nuptials...