Word: inheritance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sequels, if they are to be successful, must combine elements of the original blockbuster with a new twist. The Von Bulow Affair II does just that. As before, there are the loyal maid with the German accent, the stepchildren who stand to inherit millions, the sleeping heiress who was allegedly the target of a murder attempt most foul, all set against the gilded backdrops of Newport, R.I., and Manhattan. But this time there is the promise of new and quirky characters, while the once icy defendant, lo and behold, seems to have come to life...
...prosecution strategy mirrors that of the first trial: persuade the jury that Von Bulow tried to murder Sunny because of the $14 million he stood to inherit and because his mistress, Alexandra Isles, had threatened to leave him if he did not marry her. Isles, a socialite and former soap-opera actress whose dramatic testimony may have helped convict her ex-lover the first time around, has apparently left the country, and no one seems sure whether she will reappear...
...gone that can never be replaced. In Indira's passing, the country's very will to exist is being threatened. While her son pleads in his mother's name, houses are being burned and people are turning upon each other in the cities of India. Indira did not merely inherit the legacy of her father and grandfather, she was the legacy that they gave to the country in their passing. My mother and I will never forget our brief glimpses of the woman who has embodied the colorful and contradictory nature of Indian culture and society; the country will never...
...child, does she have the right to smoke and drink in defiance of their wishes? Does she have the right to an abortion? And what of the baby born through such methods: Does it have a right to know its biological parents? Or even a right to inherit their property...
...more justly certified savants like Lord Kelvin, the respected British physicist ("X rays are a hoax," circa 1900), and Dr. Linard Williams, medical officer to the Insurance Institute of London, who said in 1932: "If your eyes are set wide apart you should be a vegetarian, because you inherit the digestive characteristics of bovine or equine ancestry...