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...Dallas, many viewers responded by complaining directly to District Attorney Wade-even, as Wade says, "my own son-in-law." No less important, Texas Governor Mark White got on the phone. Wade contends that the show presented a "distorted" picture and that he was not bending to pressure. But last week he bowed to the extralegal public verdict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Doubt Has Been Raised | 12/26/1983 | See Source »

...when Emma moves out, Aurora discovers that her child has no corner on inappropriate males. After Flap takes a job in Des Moines ("You can't even fail locally," cries Aurora, whose contempt for her son-in-law is her one immutable, hilarious quality), a plaintive note creeps into her obsessive phone calls to her daughter. Parent is now becoming a dependent, in need of a confidante, especially with that astronaut orbiting around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sisters Under the Skin | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...Simon's once and present singing partner, Art Garfunkel, and Billy Joel, who presented the couple with a jukebox filled with records from the 1950s. More traditionally, Papa Fisher gave his daughter six ruby, garnet, jade and diamond rings and a vintage Cartier watch. To his new son-in-law he gave his "most prized possession," a framed photograph of Fisher holding Carrie and her brother Todd when they were babies. After the formalities, though, the customary honeymoon was replaced by a "working honeymoon" as the couple flew off to Houston, where Simon and Garfunkel were to appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 29, 1983 | 8/29/1983 | See Source »

...June, Mutai was succeeded by Yosoji Kobayashi, 70, a son-in-law of Shoriki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The World's Biggest Newspaper | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

...some farm land and assumed matriarchal ways. This was Gram, who had five daughters and, though no one seemed to think the fact very important, a husband. Her style was regal-she would stomp out at night to play bingo whenever she felt like it-and her son-in-law Dan the butcher called her the Queen of Persia. She sheltered, in her take-it-or-leave-it way, her unmarried daughters and whatever married ones happened, at any given moment, to have found their husbands redundant (men are minor irritants in this matriarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Group Portrait | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

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