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...seldom vex a lover's ears With business or with jealous fears. I give him freely all delights With pleasant days and easy nights...
...Colette characters have the nerves and blood vessels of animals, but their hottest emotions are always ready to leap to the aid of their coldest calculations. In a jealous woman, for example, Colette sees "the development of a sense of hearing, virtuosity of vision, speed and silence of steps, the sense of smell directed towards the trace left behind by hair, by a perfumed powder, the passage of an indiscreetly happy person-all this recalls very closely the exercises of soldiers on a campaign, and the knowledge of poachers...
...really Mario Costa, the famous regista, she made him show his identity card to prove it. Gina went to work as an extra at about $3.30 a day, soon rose to be a stand-in for a well-known actress, but was fired, she says, because the star was jealous of Gina's looks. In 1947, Gina entered a beauty contest, was chosen Miss Rome, ran second in the Miss Italy competition. Two years after that, she married Dr. Skofic, got a showy role in a picture about beauty contests called Miss Italia, and an urgent invitation from Hollywood...
School for Hope, by Michael McLav erty. A quietly lilting story of how a bachelor schoolmaster and a young schoolmarm overcome a jealous sister and a family jinx (TIME, July...
...name had a gaslitera ring to older art patrons. The artist: onetime Showgirl Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 69, who was plunged into scream-headline scandal (and won the dubious title of "the girl with the bee-sting lips") in 1906, when her husband, millionaire Financier Harry K. Thaw, in a jealous fit of suspicion, shot and killed the nation's No. 1 architect, Stanford White, on the nightclub roof of Manhattan's old Madison Square Garden. But the sting was gone now. "I live each day for what it brings," said Sculptress Thaw. "I'm happy...