Word: jealous
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...jealous of us. Come next Monday, we won't be out on a romantic dinner for two in a snowcovered Vermont village. We'll be sitting dutifully in 14 Plympton, editting your magazine. And maybe next week we'll be writing acidic prose on the fleeting nature of love...
Besides such boneheaded lyricism, Keillor's men are capable only of the primal and sweaty masculine emotions: jealous violence and libidinous desire. This vision of New Age Man jars: a proudly belching bass fisherman, at peace with his clueless self...
...more gothic. Even people without the faintest interest in the crystalline world of figure skating could not help marveling at the spectacle. Did the scrappy girl from the trailer parks, who has climbed so high and suffered so much, possibly plot to destroy her rival? Or did her violently jealous husband assemble a gang of goons to act without her knowledge but on her behalf? If so, was the motive love or money? If not, why are others smearing his name with dirt? And if Tonya Harding turns out to be innocent, how searing must it be that more than...
...birthplace of the anti-Israeli intifadeh, Aziz's family and friends raised a tent for week-long mourning ceremonies. A militant wearing a black hood wielded an ax painted red. let slaughtering the jews be our road to paradise, read a banner on the tent. "We are jealous of Anwar," said one of Aziz's friends. "We feel like cowards because we have not yet done the same thing...
...civil war heats up in the late '50s. She is tortured with knives, electric prods, snakes, even ants; she is brutalized by the republican army and raped by the Viet Cong. She is a stand-in for her lovely country, despoiled by successive invaders like a slave princess by jealous pashas. And when she escapes to the U.S. with her sergeant husband (Tommy Lee Jones), life doesn't improve. It's still sexual rapacity, guns and ammo, war games by other means...