Word: mother-in-law
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...former President. Nixon, on a 10-day private visit to Russia, met with former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, who led a bloody rebellion against Yeltsin last October. Yeltsin later appeared to soften his stand but said he couldn't reschedule the meeting because of the death of his mother-in-law...
...wife in a pinochle game with her father. The father bets his daughter's hand; Joseph bets a cold blast of air from his meat locker. After a small protest, Catherine Falconetti (Tracey Ullman, the overblown British comedienne) marries him, becomes pregnant, and falls victim to her haggard mother-in-law's Old World superstitions. Her first miscarried child seems to possess a chicken's wings. Why? Because she walked into the butcher's shop while Joseph slaughtered a turkey, of course. We know that something other than a quaint portrait of 1940s Little Italy is taking form here...
...mother-in-law came to visit last weekend and she stayed in my dorm room. My husband and I only just got married so we figured we'd stay in the dorms to have our last taste of student life. Now she's gone (thank God) and my blue bathrobe is missing. I think she may have taken it. How do I approach her? My husband says she would never have taken it and refuses to bring it up. Now the issue is causing a strain on our relationship. Should I leave it be or should I ask her about...
...worry about the bathrobe, worry about the mother-in-law. She and your husband are the far bigger problem. Talk things out with him (divorce) and see if you can work it out. Buy yourself a new bathrobe. And don't ever invite her again...
...would not like to be seen just as a Parsi writer. For example, in The Crow-eaters, the characters are all Parsi. But all my friends in India and Pakistan who are not Parsi say, "Ah, we know who you have written about. You have written about my mother-in-law." So you see I don't think it means anything if a character is a parsi or a Christian or Hindu. They are human beings primarily and they relate to the reader as a human being. We share experiences...