Word: mother-in-law
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...biggest role, Reporter Hildy Johnson, David Garrison is brash, self-possessed, life-of-the-party, winning and entirely wrong. Hildy is nearing middle age. He sees one last chance to break free, give up the tabloid follies of youth and settle down with wife, pipe, slippers and mother-in-law. Garrison's Hildy instead sees endless tomorrows. The girl he loves enough to leave the Examiner for, moreover, ought to be so enticing as to make any man question his values. At Santa Fe she comes across as a drip...
...awkward attempts to overcome personal isolation. Gundzinger does not love the builder but lives with him because "he gives me space and makes me laugh," and that is infinitely preferable to loneliness. In one of the movie's most subtly haunting scenes, Gundzinger faces her new future mother-in-law alone for the first time. Gundzinger has just thrown up, and is embarrassed. The older woman is embarrassed by Gundzinger's embarrassment. The two, who do not get along but desperately want each other's approval, cautiously search for a palatable topic of conversation. Finally Kate asks, "What color dress...
...walking through a cemetery sees a funeral procession. A hearse with two caskets, then a line of men following this guy with his dog. He asks the guy with the dog, 'What happened?' 'My dog bit my wife and my mother-in-law.' Man asks: 'Can I borrow the dog?' Guy says: 'Get in line...
...Jewish as rain making." The Premier's son made the supreme sacrifice for an Israeli: instead of wearing his customary open-necked shirt, he donned coat and tie. So strange was the four-in-hand, he insisted, that he had to have it tied by his mother-in-law before he left Jerusalem. In the U.S., afraid to undo it, he carefully slid the fully knotted assemblage on and off each...
...young Carter visited is the only liquor-licensed establishment in the area, owned by Vasilios, a fortyish Greek emigre and town sage. "He shook people's hands and he came and drank with us. I will vote for Carter," Vasilios says as he sips his Michelob. His mother-in-law Pauline, a beautiful vibrant blonde woman, nods in agreement. Their bar is also a restaurant, cafe and nightclub--an area of the floor has been cleared for dancing and occasional couples parade their togetherness to a Kenny Rogers tune that was not meant for slow dancing. Pauline, the bartender, worked...