Word: son-in-law
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...wanted to explore the implications of Ellen's discovery about herself, which should provide plenty of opportunities for satire and romantic comedy. But instead of being integrated into the show, Ellen's homosexuality has become the show. Situation comedies have situations--a bigot lives with his left-wing son-in-law; coed buddies get by in the big city--but the premise should allow for a range of humor. Ellen, though, is now as one-dimensional as Bewitched, where every story line, every moment, every gag relies on the same device...
...Belgian draft mule. The only sounds he hears are the snap of a rein across the mule's hindquarters, the simple mechanical whirl of his corn-harvesting machine and the creak of his oak-plank wagon as he hauls another stack of feed corn to his son-in-law's silo. Like their ancestors, Jacob and his kin light their farmhouses with gas lanterns and drive carriage horses--never automobiles--back and forth to town...
Lucker is survived by her husband of 45 years, Jay; their daughters, Amy Lucker of Arlington, Mass. and Nancy Lucker Lazerson and son-in-law Joshua Lazerson of Encinitas, Calif.; and her sister, Helen Stern-Richter of New York City...
Keating now lives in Phoenix, Arizona, sheltered by a close-knit clan: his wife Mary Elaine, six children and 29 grandchildren. House hopping between his children's homes like a visiting relative, Keating recently left the villa belonging to one daughter and son-in-law and moved into the more modest home of another of his children in a working-class Phoenix suburb, a Gulliver at rest in a granddaughter's cramped bedroom...
...son-in-law of Alderman Richard Mell, this 39-year-old challenger has an advantage that age and experience don't give: a line to Mayor Richard Daley and the Democratic "machine," still a force in Windy City politics. Family ties may have played a role in Blagojevich's primary victory, but the former prosecutor, who talks tough on crime, should also get a boost from the national Democratic Party, which declared Republican incumbent Michael Flanagan "extremely vulnerable...