Word: enviously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Filmdom's establishment has good reason to be envious, since independents are stealing the most prestigious scenes. When the Academy Awards ceremony takes place next week, the spotlight will shine on two independently produced films, Platoon and A Room with a View, which led the nominations with eight apiece. Last year the top acting Oscars went to A Trip to Bountiful and Kiss of the Spider Woman; both were the work of an independent studio, Island Pictures. The major studios left an opening for such films by sticking too long with expensive formulas calling for car chases, special effects...
...battle of the Ivy Champions and a bunch of upstarts who have cast an envious eye on the league title...
...residents of the United Nations' U.S. Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Mariana islanders were long envious of their neighbors and fellow Chamorros to the south on Guam, who have been U.S. citizens since 1950. Although the Marianas voted overwhelmingly for commonwealth status in 1975, it took the U.N. until last May to approve the change, which President Reagan proclaimed Nov. 3. Other former members of the U.S. Trust Territory -- the Palau group, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia (Yap Island group, Kusaie, the Truk Islands and Ponape) -- opted for independence...
...offering labor contracts on an experimental basis in 1983, say the new system has boosted employee morale as well as factory performance. Li Xuling agrees. While her friends in permanent jobs earn an average of $27 a month, she took home nearly $60 in July. Asked if others were envious, Li replied, "No. But if they do get jealous, I'll tell them, 'Hey, this is socialism. If you want to earn more, work more...
...both of them. The situation is somewhat similar to the time Hemingway and his first wife Hadley spent a summer living with Pauline Pfeiffer, a Paris Vogue editor who was to become the second Mrs. Hemingway. Yet Catherine shares some of her most unbecoming characteristics with Zelda Fitzgerald, the envious and unbalanced wife of Hemingway's pal F. Scott...