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...fizzle, however, when Aczel injured himself while loading a lawnmower onto Ms. Filler's Jeep, and she refused to foot the medical bills. Moreover, says Aczel, "I slatted gelling phone calls. My apartment was broken into. My car was stolen. I think it was people who were jealous of me, people around her who wanted her money...
...maid at the hotel befriends Lucien, takes him to bed, and cautions him not to get mixed up with the collaborators "who are not people like you and me." When Lucien later brings France to the hotel, the maid gets hysterical. She attacks France, screaming "Dirty, dirty Jew!"--the jealous rage of a rejected woman is inextricably mixed with the underlying anti-Semitism of the European peasant. But here jealousy predominates. Her anti-Semitism would not have come to the surface in such a violent way if it hadn't been the channel for other resentments, just as Hitler needed...
...common themes--loneliness, disillusionment, fascination with the superficial-- which are usually well-engineered and gripping, grow repetitive and dull. "Love in the Night" like several other stories in this collection, ends with a saccharine postscript amounting to "they married and lived happily ever after." "The Dance" which involves a jealous murder, is so blatant that it reads like a cruddy mystery. Where plot and dialogue run thinnest, Fitzgerald seems to dwell on elaborate descriptions of resorts, bars, and clothes, reducing stories like "The Hotel Child" to lists of Europe's lush spots. Even the rich can be handled adroitly...
Although Patton admired Omar Bradley, he referred to him as "Omar the Tentmaker." Of General Mark Wayne Clark he was almost invariably contemptuous and jealous. Patton's constant theme throughout the war was a kind of bewildered disappointment that men he regarded as his inferiors were surpassing him. "I can't see how people can be so dull and lacking in imagination," he wrote. "Compared to them, I am a genius. I think...
...Simon) for problems that are so obviously the fault of the script. Lines like "There's love in me, too, enough love to destroy all the greed in the world" are bound to make the most subtle, provocative actor or actress sound silly. Maggie Brenner is effective as the jealous, rapidly aging mother who combats loneliness by occasional flights into a world of make-believe. These moments of fanciful imagination would be hard to sustain were they not presented with delicacy and poise. Sometimes Deborah's speeches bog down, though, and she would do well to recite some...