Word: mother-in-law
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...Camping next to the Germans is like visiting your mother-in-law," complained one Swede. "All you hear is 'Do this, do that.' " Said a German of nearby British: "You always hear about British reserve. Why don't you ever see it?" The British, of course, were oblivious to criticism. "I love outdoor living," enthused one British caravaner. "It helps you understand other people. And it would be even better if those damn Italians weren't always stopping up the toilets...
...Fairfield County, Conn., the heroine starts out with her husband John Forsythe (who will one day be Governor of the state), their tiny son, and a vengeful mother-in-law, played by the late Constance Bennett. After one wifely indiscretion (Ricardo Montalban), Lana is banished by Connie from haute couture country, and begins the long, long slide into ready-to-wear. In Europe, she picks up a fur-trimmed coat and a concert pianist. Her hair loses its luster, her complexion fades to the color of driftwood, and ultimately she lands in Mexico wearing a filthy flowered wrapper and carousing...
...Longstocking, the children's book tomboy who played hooky and didn't wash behind his ears. Neither Pepper nor her big brother Markie can find someone to love them, to make them believe it's worth growing up. Pepper faces down a grey-flannel husband and petty-bourgeois mother-in-law, befriends a looney, and runs off to Europe to find her brother, who carries the world's angst on his shoulders...
MARQUIS DE SADE, SELECTED LETTERS, edited by Gilbert Lély. From prison and the lunatic asylum, the Marquis wrote to his mother-in-law, his wife and his valet, hoping that someone would understand. These letters make a human figure of the ogre whose actions and fantasies turned his name into an eponym for the pain that, to some, gives pleasure...
Lady Who? A reasonable question, for the world has almost forgotten the greatest Englishwoman of the 18th century. Her beauty was the cynosure, her wit the terror, her private life the puzzlement of Hanoverian London. She was the confidante of one Prime Minister (Walpole) and the mother-in-law of another (Bute). She introduced smallpox vaccination to Europe. She rivaled Pope as a satiric versifier, dazzled Addison and Steele as an essayist. Above all she was acclaimed, by Dr. Johnson himself, as the greatest of the great letter writers of 18th century England...