Word: sister-in-law
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...memories of growing up in India and the family's immigration to Australia, and the stories of Tom's father, the Englishman Arthur Loxley, and Arthur's Eurasian wife, Iris de Souza. Iris, now an arthritic and incontinent 82-year-old, living on the untender mercies of her sister-in-law, Audrey, is becoming an intractable problem for her son. Meanwhile, Tom's deepening attraction for Nelly can only find an outlet in a desultory work he begins about...
...chapter where Charlie Blackwell is drinking heavily, and he buys the baseball team and gives up drinking and finds religion, and obviously those have George Bush parallels. But there's all this other stuff that has to do with a Princeton reunion, and Alice Blackwell's sister-in-law having doubts about her own marriage. So even in the sections that borrow most heavily from real life, almost everything is made up. And of course, literally, every scene is made up - because even if we all know that there's a point when George Bush became religious, I sure wasn...
...Salute Seen from Many Angles As the sister-in-law of Peter Norman, the late Australian Olympic sprinter, I was disappointed to read your story on Salute, the new documentary about Peter [Aug. 4]. You report that his son Matt, the director, seems to be "angry on his uncle's behalf" with the two athletes Peter supported in their black-power salute at the 1968 Olympics. I believe Peter would turn in his grave if he read that. He had nothing but support for Tommie Smith and John Carlos and was honored to be asked to the unveiling...
Pity the shy, retiring girl whose sibling marries above her station. Yesterday a judge in Toledo, Spain ruled that, like it or not, Telma Ortiz, sister to Princess Letizia - and hence sister-in-law to the heir to the Spanish throne - is a public figure. According to the court, she is not entitled, therefore, to keep the paparazzi away...
...laws, at least according to stereotype, are seldom easy to deal with. But just imagine being 26, newly married, returned from a honeymoon and suddenly living under the same roof as your hubby's extended family - eight, all told, including a peppy sister-in-law who, you soon discover, might be sleeping with her slobbering, mentally impaired teenage brother. Do you run or hide? If you're Noriko Shito (née Hashimoto), the birdbrained protagonist of Asa Nonami's trippy murder mystery Now You're One of Us, you do neither. You shut your mouth, smile and stay...