Family Theatre's maxim The family that prays together stays together, could apply to Falcon Crest if prays were changed to preys. “The family that sleeps together keeps together” is another possibility. At least the intermarrying is not as bizarre as it is in Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs, in which Siegmund commits both incest and adultery with his married sister, Sieglinde, and their son Siegfried takes his aunt Brünhilde as his wife.

Here it was that the Gauls gave the Romans such a fatal Overthrow, that Dies Alliensis went proverbially afterwards for Dies infaustus, an unlucky or black Day.

But how is a life, in a great measure prayerless, consistent with a holy life? To lead an holy life is to lead a life devoted to God; a life of worshipping...

“Noah, if you want more, I need to be able to go out and get it.” “I know, I know,” he said. “I'm just saying hang tight till Monday.”