Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newly prosperous peasants began streaming into the cities to buy trucks, cars and consumer luxuries, their urban counterparts, whose wages remained fixed, grew jealous. Although agriculture has boomed, much of Chinese industry has continued to stagnate. Unemployment in the cities is higher than 10%, while poor planning has, the resolution acknowledges, "seriously dampened the enthusiasm, initiative and creativeness of enterprises." Shortages of electrical power have idled about 20% of industry. Scarcity of steel and cement has brought construction projects to a halt for months on end. Meanwhile, more than 40% of the government's budget has gone to subsidizing...
...Salieri cannot drown the haunting elegance of his rival's work. Even though the public prefers his own sing or melodies, Salieri is tormented by the knowledge that Mozart alone possesses true genius. And so the jealous man seizes upon a plan of total destruction. In a voice that carries no hint of remorse, the aged composer reveals to the speechless Priest his decision to commission a requiem from Mozart, and then murder his rival. At the funeral, the cathedral would swell with a stirring mass for the dead musician, written by his devoted friend Antonio Salieri...
...stage version of Amadeus is the vindication of Salieri's frustrated quest for immortality. If audiences did not gain any greater impression of his gain any greater impression of his musical talents, Salieri at least became unforgettable in the depth of his jealous passion. But translated to the screen, Amadeus becomes Mozart's own. Shaffer and Forman preserve the intensity of the Salieri-Mozart rivalry, but the film is permeated with the pulse and rhythm of the headstrong child who could compose "as if taking dictation...
...Joystick," for instance, is an indecipherable while about--it seems--patrimony, while "Endlessly Jealous" is yet another boring exposition of his marital squabbling. Meanwhile, 'Doin' the Things That We Want To" is a simplistic (albeit catchy) tribute to Sam Shephard and Martin Scorcese (but does Reed truly admire Travis Bickle, the tormented psychopath of Taxi Driver, for doing the things he wants...
...energetic Pontiff visited the ancient monastery at Einsiedeln, spoke in four languages and exhorted Swiss bankers to bring lofty principles to the world of high finance. Editorialized the Swiss opinion weekly L'Hebdo: "The Protestants may be a little jealous of Rome's marketing prowess...