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...some extent, the fears about Home reflect Britain's long and jealous struggle to establish political democracy and protect it from the monarchy and nobility. The last peer to form a government in Britain was Lord Salisbury in 1895. Since then, in deference to the unwritten rule that the Prime Minister cannot sit in the "Other Place," as M.P.s call the House of Lords, party leaders twice have reluctantly passed over titled favorites for second-running commoners. In 1923 Stanley Baldwin wrested the job from Lord Curzon; in 1940 Winston Churchill edged out Lord Halifax. Today the old rule...
...last two thirds of the movie offer a lower temperature and a bit more art. Flattery used for cuckoldry is the subject of the second vignette, "The Fox and the Crow." To make the acquaintance of pretty Anna Karina, Mr. Renard swells the head of her jealous husband. Miss Karina is fully clothed throughout...
...most of them, delay invites disaster. Heroine Taylor is "eloping" to America with Louis Jourdan, and delay means that Hero Burton, the violently jealous millionaire the heroine is married to, will surely catch up with them. Orson Welles, a celebrated film director, has tax problems, and delay beyond midnight means that about ?300,000 will be legally lifted out of his pocket. Rod Taylor, a tractor tycoon, needs a financial transfusion to save his corporate life, and delay means debacle...
...back to 1915, a perceptive reader can piece together a startling self-portrait of the artist. Some of it will go against the grain of Frost's more sentimental adulators. People thought of him, Untermeyer explains, "as benevolent, sweet and serene. Instead he was proud, trou bled and jealous. Robert did not converse, he spoke...
Government crises in The Netherlands result from a proliferation of parties, reflecting the Dutchman's jealous insistence on separate factions to represent every shade of political opinion and religious dogma. No single party has commanded an outright majority since 1894, and quadrennial elections only upset the delicate balance of power between the leading parties that make up the coalition governments...