Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just because you ole hags can't appreciate good music or play gutiar worth a jellybean dosen't mean you have to go protesting about the Beatles. We think you're jealous because your stupid magazine isn't selling as well as the Beatle Albems. For petes sake, why go knocking the Beatles around? There doing better then you. By the way, both of us agree that Norwegian Wood and Day Tripper are not undecent. Where did you get that idea? Take our advice: state the right facts or flake...
...Ganges Delta, of the slow cycle of the Indian year, from Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, back again to the Moslem festival of Muharram. In a muted way there was tragedy, too. The sisters tell how Nitai, their meek sweeper, killed his beautiful daughter in a jealous rage after she moved in with Guru, the Godden family's gatekeeper...
...been the queen of fado for more than 20 years. But she is a vagabond queen, rationing her performances at home to tour the world. In Lisbon, variety-show comics crack that Portugal has everything that the rest of the world has-except Amália. "The Portuguese are jealous lovers," says Amália. "They say that I drink, that I am a spy, that I work for the secret police, that I sing only for ministers." Actually, her most sinister possession is a green thumb, with which she tends the garden of her 18th century home in Lisbon...
...surely not The Nuremburg Trials; The Shop on Main Street gains its power by restricting itself to the study of one village. Hitler is hardly mentioned. Instead we are constantly reminded that the soldiers and henchmen are Czechoslavakian themselves, often residents of the village. The film thus shows us jealous neighbor persecuting more fortunate neighbor in an almost vigilante fashion. The topic is indeed timely for, if we can believe C. L. Sulzberger, this kind of persecution is taking place today throughout Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia, where the overseas Chinese and other minority groups are constantly subject to attack...
...lower-level governments within their borders. The nation's 3,049 counties, for example, could play an important role in coordinating the overlapping needs of city and suburb in such areas as sanitation and law enforcement, but most of them are restricted to routine housekeeping chores by jealous state legislatures. Local governments should be feeding ideas to their state capitals on urban-renewal and welfare programs, but city halls have been ignored for so long that few bother to do so. Half of the states go so far as to deny home rule to their cities, an absurdity that...