Word: jealous
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...best piece of the evening was Todd Bolender's Souvenirs, a spoof of pre-World War I manners, mores and dress, with a setting that suggested a hotel in a Feydeau comedy. There is a small army of standard farce characters, including a jealous husband, a languid vamp, a preening gigolo. Weighed down with a pound or so of mascara, Manola Asensio was a wonderfully deadpan, sultry vamp, but the farce- predictable bedroom mix-ups, a boop-a-doop beachside romp-is forced...
...country residence one morning in early spring." The stock characters dash to and fro, pausing in place long enough to let the critics' discussion go on without competition. --Until the phone rings again on a deserted stage and Birdfoot leaves his seat to answer it; it's his jealous wife. And before Birdfoot can get back to his seat...
...Mets are definitely one team that gained over the winter. At long last, that deadwood centerfielder Willie Mays decided to hand-em up for the benefit of both Yogi Berra and his jealous teammates. No longer will the crowd roar when Mays gets up from the bench to get a drink of water--there won't be any more standing ovations for a few cuts at the air. But as long as Baby-Face Seaver and the rest of his no-hit, no-field comedians continue to come to the park, the rest of the league will be hard-pressed...
Even in the wake of The Exorcist, it is too much to ask an audience to take seriously a plot about a young witch-boy of the Ozarks who turns human to marry his sweetheart but is turned back into a witch by the jealous schemes of the witch-girls he has left behind. The only magic in the play consists of the near-miracle that the cast is good enough to keep the audience's attention...
After World War I, the young bohemians were international successes whose canvases Gertrude could no longer afford. The interesting new arrivals in Paris were writers, and Gertrude courted them too. But she was older, more rigid and more jealous of writing talent. There began to be in her a shadow of Proust's tyrannical salonkeeper Mme. Verdurin. Any small slight to Gertrude, even an appearance at a party in someone else's salon, was enough to send Alice to the phone with the cutoff call...