Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knit Fireworks. In his private person, Simon is shy, quiet and inconspicuous. But Walter Mitty would be jealous. He is the man who listens unnoticed as the professional party clowns laugh it up, then-in a momentary gap in the uproar-drops a quiet line that tops them all. "Doc" Simon, as he has been called since he used to compete with physicians in their attempts to diagnose family sicknesses, has been writing jokes since he was in his teens. His father was a dress salesman, and the Simons lived in an apartment in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan...
...E.N.I. been so successful in Africa? Explains one Boldrini aide: "Emergent nations are extremely jealous of their independence, afraid of the old imperialist powers. We go in without any political color, and they regard us as 'safe...
...some extent, the fears about Home reflect Britain's long and jealous struggle to establish political democracy and protect it from the monarchy and nobility. The last peer to form a government in Britain was Lord Salisbury in 1895. Since then, in deference to the unwritten rule that the Prime Minister cannot sit in the "Other Place," as M.P.s call the House of Lords, party leaders twice have reluctantly passed over titled favorites for second-running commoners. In 1923 Stanley Baldwin wrested the job from Lord Curzon; in 1940 Winston Churchill edged out Lord Halifax. Today the old rule...
...last two thirds of the movie offer a lower temperature and a bit more art. Flattery used for cuckoldry is the subject of the second vignette, "The Fox and the Crow." To make the acquaintance of pretty Anna Karina, Mr. Renard swells the head of her jealous husband. Miss Karina is fully clothed throughout...
...most of them, delay invites disaster. Heroine Taylor is "eloping" to America with Louis Jourdan, and delay means that Hero Burton, the violently jealous millionaire the heroine is married to, will surely catch up with them. Orson Welles, a celebrated film director, has tax problems, and delay beyond midnight means that about ?300,000 will be legally lifted out of his pocket. Rod Taylor, a tractor tycoon, needs a financial transfusion to save his corporate life, and delay means debacle...