Word: enviously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thucydides said it thusly: "Having admired his unwillingness to do evil, we are not envious of his foolishness...
...knows? Who cares, finally? The fun lies in the journey. It is a trip of constantly shifting perceptions and sharply etched satirical sketches of movie types (the anxious writer, the stars in constant need of reassurances and some good lighting, the crew members variously laconic, envious and nymphomaniacal). It is also a carnival of bang-up stunt scenes. which Richard Rush presents with marvelous subtlety. They do not look like the finished product, but neither are they like raw footage: they have the half-polished air of a rough cut. Above all, there is Peter O'Toole, doing...
...frustrated by what they consider the inadequacy of Masters and Johnson's direction. "I would like to see the data," says Psychologist F. Paul Pearsall, on the staff of the Institute for Sex Research in Bloomington, Ind. "Until we can replicate their work, we will remain either awed, envious or suspicious of its validity...
That was the way an envious competitor described Harper's at the start of the Civil War. Since then, however, it has rarely been popular or profitable. Founded by four brothers in New York City, Harper's has spent most of its 130 years awash in red ink, losing $1.3 million annually since 1977. Last week America's oldest monthly received its long-feared death notice. Said Otto Silha, chairman of the parent Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co.: "It was no longer desirable for the company to support its operation in the light of increased costs...
...These days, when reporters with pretty faces are all over the TV news, Maggie Higgins might not be the sensation she was in 1950. (In the new journalism neither might Bigart; he stutters.) But Maggie was the Korean War's most famous correspondent, even though unkind (or envious) colleagues accused her of using feminine wiles to get stories she might not have otherwise got. To silence this still famous argument at the reunion, one correspondent snaps: "Damn it, Maggie did it on ability. She was just a woman before her time...