Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot is basically faithful to a the Bible story (see the last bit of Genesis for the paperback version). Joseph is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, and is taken to Egypt, where, in the the first known Horatio Alger story, he rises to the top and ends up saving his now repentant brothers. Mark Meredith as Joseph has a superb voice and just enough of the pretty boy look about him to make his putting on sunglasses look like a scene from Risky Business. The one petty fault with his performance is that he looks too much...
Harvard's ski team could not help but be jealous...
...respect ("It was easy to admire him . . . he looked his best in uniform"), Moshe Dearest is remembered mostly for his inadequacies. He posed as a family man, but philandered compulsively ("His choice of bed partners was vulgar and in poor taste") and complained about Yael's boyfriends like a jealous lover. In the '70s other, wider conflicts intervened. After Israel's near catastrophe in the October War of 1973, the general was maligned by some of his own countrymen as "the architect of military cemeteries." His 35-year marriage dissolved, he remarried, enjoyed a brief period of rehabilitation and happiness...
...sister and the kid have a relationship. The sister is jealous of the attention her brother gets from their parents, ("You always take his side because he's crippled. Well it's not my fault he's crippled!"). And the kid feels terrible when a joke he plays on his sister makes her ruin her new pantyhose...
Even this ideological struggle, however, soon collapses into a predictable triangle: the fiercely-independent June, her caring but impotent lover, and jealous abusive ex-husband. One can't help feeling disappointed when June interrupts the love-making scene with the excuse-confession that her husband used to beat her. For all her proud determination, she seems less a heroine than yet another victim of an early marriage and thwarted ambitions. Somehow, this is supposed to be the justifying grounds for transforming her misogyny and defensive cry of "leave me alone!" into a model for all independent women. In general...