Word: mother-in-law
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...much more selective in his use of detail. But in a crucial way. The Years Alone is less interesting. It features the same sturdy central character, but how one misses that old supporting cast! Gone is the gallery of flamboyant Roosevelt drunks to predictably early graves. The martinet mother-in-law is dead too, and even Cousin Alice Longworth's acid tongue is inexplicably silent, though she is still alive. Most sorely missed of all is F.D.R. himself, whose death marked the end of the first book. Only traces of his wit remain, such as this prayer for deliverance...
...amusingly caught between East and West, lavishly mounting their ancient rituals and becoming expert billiard players. When Satoko becomes engaged, the palace discreetly passes the word that this flower of culture, versed in poetry and calligraphy, must learn to play mah-jongg because that is her future mother-in-law's favorite diversion. As for her fiancé, the Imperial Highness, his only known opinions are on Western music. When his proud mother asks him to "play some thing for us," he rises promptly and-in a parody of any child who takes music lessons -marches over...
...prison ship Maidstone in Belfast harbor (which the government ordered closed last week). Said one sample ad: "Hamill-to Frankie and comrades on your ninth day of hunger strike. They can intern the revolutionaries, but they can't intern the revolution. God bless you. From your mother-in-law and family...
...Jews outside Mexico City, lunch with six Orthodox rabbis on Manhattan's Lower East Side interviews and with Conservative Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum. After bestowing the traditional three blessings that complete the conversion cere mony, the rabbi quipped: "You even look Jewish." At a family gathering, her mother-in-law teased that Clare had learned more about Judaism and its history than anyone else present...
Last June, Irving appeared at a house in Cathedral City, Calif., that belonged to Stanley Meyer's mother-in-law. There, Meyer says, he approached Irving, whom he had known in Los Angeles ten years before, and asked if he would be interested in rewriting the Phelan manuscript for Noah Dietrich. "No, I can't," Irving replied. "I'm already doing a book on the four richest men in the world [including Howard Hughes]." That was not unusual; all through the project, Irving disguised the fact that he was interested only in Hughes by saying...