Word: jealous
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...talk, they bounce word-pellets off each other. Everything ricochets with the angle of conditioned response, an idiom of cliche, more like music than words--a high-pitched constant background. Their tough, jabbing control in conversation speaks of boys who have grown up together, pulled farther apart and more jealous of each other as they go along. Indeed, we get a connecting sense throughout the film of what they were as children, who played what role before the cruel hierarchy of the streets yanked them apart and into themselves. They've seen a great deal by now, and they...
Veteran Buffalo players, feeling underpaid and a little jealous of Simpson's knack for getting publicity, took special joy in such hazing rites as shaving O.J.'s head, making him stand on a table while singing the U.S.C. fight song, and popping him extra hard in practice to let him know that he was playing with the big boys. Trouble was, the Bills were far less accomplished at jolting opponents. Simpson, fresh from two starring appearances in the Rose Bowl, had to painfully adapt to playing with a loser...
...blacks relied on Evers alone to produce a big enough turnout to give them the votes necessary to defeat entrenched whites. Many county organizations were not even strong enough to keep black voters loyal to black candidates. In some counties--including Evers's home area--black voters sometimes became jealous of black candidates and rationalized supporting the white opposition by concluding that uneducated blacks were incapable of serving...
...John Milner, the most sympathetically and carefully drawn character, is the drag-racing champion whose fate is to stay in home town America and race his yellow jalopy until he is finally beaten. Milner, who is the archetypical tough on the outside but soft on the inside hood, is jealous of his two college bound friends, but he accepts his fate without complaint...
...WEEKS you'll be coming to Harvard? Excited? All your dreams are about to come true. Your high school buddies are jealous, and you feel a little funny about that, but Jesus are you proud of it. And that cool pride--the pride you'll come to frown upon as uncool, at least with your peers--may make you just a bit more vulnerable than you'd like to think...