Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orpheus sought her and persuaded Hades to release her from the underworld. Orpheus started back to earth with her, but violated the condition that he should not look at her until he left the underworld--and so he lost her. Back on earth, Orpheus was torn apart by women jealous of his love for Eurydice...
...secret disciple of Sabbatai Zevi, the False Messiah who taught that the world must become wholly corrupt before it could be made pure. Lise is corrupted by her husband's obscene sexual instruction. When he finally urges her to sleep with her father's coachman, she agrees. Jealous and remorseful, the husband rushes to the synagogue and tells all. After a nightmarish trial, the bedeviled wife, lover and cuckolded husband are paraded through crowded streets, and the town of Kreshev itself goes up in flames. The Devil had done his work and a just God had done...
...kitchen floor, gets up and lights the grill. One by one the others arrive. The chef is a narrow-eyed old-timer who minds his peas and cutlets. The fish cook (Carl Mohner) is a burly young German bursting with aggressive force, manic charm, balked ambition and jealous lust for a pretty, flirty waitress (Mary Yeomans). The butcher is a steady boozer who loathes the "lousy forriners'' he works with and keeps squalling:' "Speak bloody English!" The vegetable cook is a soiled blimp who waggles her massive breasts at the salad chef but insists that the lower...
Marie Laforet alternates between passion and great delicacy in the part of the sensuous, yet sensitive and enigmatic Marge. Unable to resist her painful attraction for Phillipe, she is successively tortured, loving, jealous, injured, and despite her mercurial temperament, always in character...
...character' at any time or in any part of the world...The information in the diary may in the end be judged secondary to its picture of a remarkable human being--self-important, impetuous, pugnacious, tormented by self-doubts and yet stubborn to the point of mulishness, vain, jealous, and suspicious almost to the point of paranoia; and yet at the same time deeply affectionate and warmhearted, 'as sociable as any Marblehead man,' irrepressibly humorous, passionately devoted all his life to the welfare of his country, and as courageous a diplomat as his country ever...