Word: jealous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former golfing buddies--some of whom he had thanked in his infamous "suicide" letter. Many of them initially and passionately believed Simpson to be innocent. Only much later, well into the criminal trial, did they change their minds. Helping the plaintiffs, Alan Austin and Ron Shipp described Simpson's jealous rages, his obsession with Nicole and, perhaps most important, how Nicole in the last two months of her life finally made the emotional break from the man she had loved for 18 years...
There are several answers, none of them reassuring. Most important, Yeltsin presides over a system that was built with one purpose: to give him as much power as possible and reduce to an absolute minimum the political latitude of both parliament and his own ministers. Second, Yeltsin is profoundly jealous of anyone who tries to steal his limelight, and during his illness he has divided caretaker duties between presidential chief of staff Anatoli Chubais and Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin, two men whose approaches to politics and government are diametrically opposed. The result, as the President undoubtedly intended, is political stalemate...
Even in the final fencing scene between Laertes and Hamlet, a fencing vest is worn featuring fake pecs and six-packs that would make Batman jealous. Later, Branagh's vest is removed to uncover a skin-tight tank top, revealing, of course, Branagh's chest hair. Not only does Branagh seem to wish desperately that he be immediately lauded as sex symbol of the decade, but he also employs some heavy-handed Christ imagery when he is carried out after Fortinbras' coronation. Branagh seems to be going for much more than an Oscar here...
...think you're jealous. Not only is Clinton one of the smartest, most capable, most likable Presidents we have ever had, he is also the most photogenic. It doesn't matter what he wears; he still looks like a million. Eat your heart out! EMMA LOU DIEMER Santa Barbara, California...
...goal was to counter the prosecution's picture of Simpson as a jealous ex-husband by portraying him instead as a concerned friend and confidant to a troubled woman. In addition, Baker seemed to be laying groundwork for the theory that other people in Nicole's life might have had reason to kill her. Many legal observers, however, called the tactic risky. "Unless showing her bad character points in some clear way to showing that somebody else committed the crime," says Welsh White, a criminal-law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, "I think it's going to be more...