Word: mother-in-law
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...mate chosen for love. Nearly 60% of marriages are still omiai, arrangements made mostly through family and friends but also through counseling and computer centers, and company introduction services. A bride no longer enters her husband's household as a kind of servant to her mother-in-law, nor will she shuffle respectfully three steps behind her husband...
...translation, Enchi restricts herself to describing the hair and skin color or the banal speculations of minor players in the story, ("Strong? Of course she is, but only on one level...") They seem to have no personality, no motivation for their actions, and only Yasuko, under her mother-in-law's spell, can be believable in such a state. The author fails miserably in her attempts to provide a psychological portrait of her main character, Mieko, primarily because she dwells on events in the woman's past rather than their actual effects on the character herself...
...suppose I should employ the old mother-in-law joke about mixed feelings. It's like seeing your mother-in-law going over a cliff in your new Cadillac." With that happy-go-lucky quip, L. (for Langhorne) Anthony Motley confirmed to newsmen that he would be replacing Thomas O. Enders as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. The mixed feelings might apply equally well to Thomas R. Pickering, who was unexpectedly nominated last week for the daunting position of U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. But the good-humored nonchalance was vintage Motley...
...germ"-but tension did seem to promote the disease process. Holmes discovered that merely discussing upsetting events could produce physiological changes. An experiment in which sample biopsies were taken before and after discussions of certain subjects showed that "we caused tissue damage just by talking about a mother-in-law's coming to visit," says Holmes. The example, he notes, is not facetious: "A person often catches a cold when a mother-in-law comes to visit. Patients mentioned mothers-in-law so often that we came to consider them a common
...slender (5 ft. 4 in., 99 lbs.) Maneka. Says she: "In India, women get into politics because of some man. I learned a lot from Sanjay." When TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Dean Brelis asked her last week what she had learned from her mother-in-law, Maneka shot back, "What not to do." Maneka reports having her telephone tapped, her mail opened and her followers harassed. Says Maneka of the Prime Minister: "She treats India like her personal toy, pulling off its arms and its legs. As her party grows weaker, Mrs. Gandhi becomes more forceful...