Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's disappointing," said Lamelle D. Rawlins'99, a former council president who interned inthe Clinton White House last summer. "I'mcertainly jealous...
...greatest strength is also his weakness. He has Western fans who admire his grasp of detail, but he has only narrow support in China's bureaucracy. Leftists do not like his familiarity with market economics. Conservatives accuse him of neglecting inland provinces, and the Young Turks of Beijing are jealous of his rapid rise. All these factors make Zhu less threatening and more acceptable to President and party leader Jiang Zemin. Also, one needs to consider what will happen to those who push reforms faster than the party elders want. Two very powerful leaders were removed from the scene...
...much of their power and humor from their ability to candidly joke about, for example in Butler, the postmortem theft of Winston Churchill's penis. And yet even in the supposedly free era of the 1960s, Orton was unwilling to publically announce his homosexuality, and was killed by his jealous lover in a twisted murder-suicide...
...plus holding down a job--and, of course, she's getting married next week. Or the guy who's finishing up his thesis while directing a play and running his own nonprofit organization-and occasionally lobbying on Capitol Hill. They are the Supermen and Wonderwomen. We can't be jealous of them, because they're always so pleasant. Publicly, we say they're "amazing." Privately, we show the article to our roommates and tell each other that these people must be psychotic. But secretly, we look at our own schedules and think, "What am I doing wrong...
...Kurt Cobain-ish seriousness, then shifts into the light-hearted teenage chorus "I wanna get cheeky with ya, I wanna get squeakly inside ya--lying through your teeth for a week!" on "Squeaky." If you come to Stupid, Stupid, Stupid with certain antigravity expectations, these lyrics will make you jealous. Distancing themselves from their subject matter through sarcasm, Black Grape come over to the audience, throwing a post-rock party where drugs, ex-girlfriends, and guitar solos are just instruments for the bands to play...