Word: mother-in-law
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...hallways pondering the day's entertainment schedule with a precision achieved through years of experience. They study the court calendar. They bring in clippings of trials from the Daily News. "Well, there's a good murder on the ninth floor," announces one. "Student killed his mother-in-law." "There's a good hijacking," says another. "The lawyer's good. Handles a lot of Mafia cases. They get a lot of money, these Mafia lawyers...
...Caldwell of The Centaur, whom Updike modeled on his father. Seeing Belle as the bitchy mother in Of the Farm is easier. When Eric's fiancée laughs in embarrassment at one of George's most bitter comments, Belle purrs, "How nice it must be to be so lovely that hatred amuses you." Still, she knows herself: "The sensation of falling in a dream always ends with the relief of waking up, but from the sensations of a mother-in-law there would be no awakening...
Unfortunately, most others will know Blitzstein only for his adaptation and translation of the Brecht-Weill "Threepenny Opera." Few others will catch the similarities in "I've Got the Tune" between pretentious Mme. Arbutus (the advocate here of art-for-art's-sake) and Blitzstein's mother-in-law or hear the echo of his wife's suicide when, at Mr. Musiker's most despairing moment, a character jumps out the window to her death. Elite indeed will be the group that sees physical resemblance between Blitzstein and Lehrman, who has cut his hair in order to look like...
Died. Cid Ricketts Sumner, 80, Mississippi-born author of the endearing Tammy series of books about a Southern bayou waif, and mother-in-law of Author John H. Cutler (Cardinal Cushing of Boston, Honey Fitz) whose 16-year-old son was arraigned in juvenile court as a suspect in her bludgeon murder; at her Duxbury, Mass., home...
...often adulterated with synthetic ingredients. When it is in English, the dialogue is an unstable amalgam of Shylock and Hiawatha: "When you fight the enemy and arrows pierce your skin, you bleed like all men." And in the part of Running Deer's mother, Dame Judith Anderson is relegated to pantomimic mother-in-law jokes. Despite these lapses-and a pseudopoetic slow-motion lyricism-A Man Called Horse has one estimable benefit: it avoids the white-race-is-the-cancer-of-history reproof that has marred much of the New Indian Lore...