Word: sister-in-law
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...traditional theme has the sisters being expelled from their family home by their sister-in-law, Natasha (Karen MacDonald). Indeed, the last act of the play occurs outside the house, in the garden. But Serban's three sisters are floating away even before their brother's wife enters the picture. They don't need to be driven out: They are vaporizing on their...
...Siberia, USSR, Lake Baikal, one fifth of the world's fresh water. Bread and cheese, Woods, wooden houses; ruddy hardware men, kerchiefed, buxom women. Stand at window and remember India. Read prize-winning Chinese short stories, i.e., train ticket-seller turns over new leaf and saves future sister-in-law's life by having memorized connecting bus schedules. Francine shows off Nanjing University bug life preserved in naphthalene and film boxes...
Clay met and married his wife Thelma, 47, five weeks after she arrived in Detroit from Wise, Va. "I loved working in the factory," she recalls, "but my sister-in-law was working right beside me, and she got her hand cut off up to the knuckles. That scared me to death. On the line, it was bad, but you know, I really liked it I liked the work...
...Buendia family, starts as a green Eden, then falls victim to collective amnesia, a Yanqui fruit company, catastrophic rains and inexplicable bouts of incest before being reclaimed by the jungle. When the beautiful and maddeningly virtuous Remedies Buendia is suddenly levitated heavenward while folding bedclothes, her sister-in-law merely grumbles that the sheets, which also rose, are lost forever. Central to all this is a compression of time, taut with comic invention, in which old tales and contemporary terrors are joined. The opening sentence of Solitude is typical: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano...
...Contessa de Boca Raton stands, leonine in her splendor, arms akimbo, before a room of unconscious noble men and women. Overcome with the ennui which plagues her class, she had stepped outside for a smoke while the guests of her sister-in-law, the Grafina Spielstein, chattered pointlessly. Her husband, the Duke de Imbroglio is off in search of young children, as he is wont to do after a drink or two. The Contessa has reentered after only a few minutes to find her fellow nobles blitzed on some non-medicinal herb. She is disgusted and lonely. She spits...