Word: mother-in-law
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Jennifer, the flagellant with fluorescent molars, is a new character. But her leering mother-in-law, who crouches by a hot-air register listening to the merry whack of belt on flesh, is an old friend from the first novel. So is Heroine Allison Mac-Kenzie, the girl author who writes by day and wrongs by night. Like Author Metalious, she produces a bestseller about a meretricious little New England town, and is all but drummed out of it by indignant neighbors. Her fatherly old publisher comforts her in the best way he knows how, and he certainly knows...
...Hemp. In Seattle, the suburban Grinnell & McLean furniture store ballyhooed "Mother-in-Law Mattresses," sale-priced at $9.95, craftily explained to buyers: "After mother-in-law has gone home because of the mattresses' strange odor of miscured sisal, the handy homemaker can cover the otherwise-perfect 510-coil mattress so that it will give years of odor-free comfort and sound sleep...
...country! in her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!" -Who said to her Jewish mother-in-law Naomi: "Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God [Ruth...
Look Back in Anger. The angry young hero (Richard Burton) boils over with indiscriminate rage at religion, the Sunday Times, his mother-in-law. Somehow the John Osborne play seemed saner on the stage than it does on the screen-but with Claire Bloom and Gary Raymond to help, the movie has its moments...
...supervisor at the furniture factory. He has heard rumors-and she has been coming home quite late." "Ludmilla and Serge are in love and want to get married, but they must wait at least two years for an apartment. Elina has a lecherous boss. Igor hates his mother-in-law." At divorce hearings in Moscow's city court, "the next case was Nicolai Petrovitch against Valentina Petrovitch. Nicolai spoke for about ten minutes, describing Valentina as a lazy, no-good wife who neither kept house nor worked at a steady job. He said her mother interfered constantly...