Word: son-in-law
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...black velvet suit, cape and top hat. First Novelist Tova Reich's glancing Swiftian wit never flags. She introduces one Rabbi Leon Lieb, who owns a chain of nursing homes and uses cajolery, threats and his-and-her fox cloaks as he obsessively tries to transform his son-in-law into a proper husband. But the newlyweds insist on going their own comic way: secreting a poet's mad mother in one of the nursing homes, serving as interior decorators to a psychotherapist who conducts his sessions in coffins. When Sudah renounces art for yoga, embracing celibacy...
...have a pop star handy when the photographers arrived." Her worried parents, ambitious to uphold a dynastic tradition that dates back seven centuries, scanned Europe for suitably aristocratic suitors. Prince Charles was rumored to be a favorite, and Prince Henri of Luxembourg would have made an ideal son-in-law. Neither seemed interested, and in any case, Caroline was more intrigued with a Parisian boulevardier 17 years her senior...
...party at the British Embassy. But then Prime Minister James Callaghan was free to indulge himself: playing grandfather to Tamsin, 12, Alice, 9, and Patrick, 6. The P.M. with Wife Audrey had slipped quietly into Washington for their first visit with the children, their daughter Margaret and son-in-law Peter Jay since Jay became Britain's Ambassador to the U.S. last July. The family trooped off to see the Air and Space Museum, went sailing on Chesapeake Bay, and picnicked on the grass at Monticello. Said Margaret: "We were having a very jolly time...
...both the Russian and the Baryshnikov versions. It is based on an episode in the Cervantes novel in which an innkeeper's daughter, Kitri (danced by Gelsey Kirkland), manages to marry her true love, Basil the Barber (Baryshnikov), in defiance of her father, who has a richer son-in-law in mind. The visionary Don Quixote (Alexander Minz) and his faithful Sancho Panza (Enrique Martinez) are on the periphery of the raucous doings but play no real part...
...with him once, but now rejects him with comical callousness. It seems that she went to bed with him only because he reminded her of a sailor she missed an assignation with when she was 14. A middle-aged woman keeps having seriocomic fights with the daughter and son-in-law she is trying to live with. She rejects a bus driver whose intentions are honorably dishonorable-and might offer a means of escape-in order to talk the night away with a homosexual...