Word: jealous
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...seemed incredible that proud old Papagos should simply be jealous of Markezinis; it seemed more plausible that a Markezinis grasping for power should be (in Papagos' view) bound to make trouble. By shaking up his Cabinet. Papagos managed to strengthen his own control of the government. But significantly enough, he announced that there would be no change in economic policy, and kept at the top Cabinet jobs two stalwart Markezinis men, Economic Minister Thanos Kapsalis and Finance Minister Constantine Papayannis...
...Myra is convinced that Bill is experimenting with her sister Joan, a physically overripe 15year-old who flaunts her charms with the naturalness of a dolphin showing off alongside. Before this gets ironed out, it becomes plain that Author Taylor has made almost as close a study of the jealous wife as he has of his Cap Cod types. Best friends of the Willises are the Bensons, whose "detestation of each other had gone so far that they no longer got on each other's nerves but were, in fact, rather good friends...
...office of the Vice President," he said. "He doesn't have anything to do. It will keep him awake." The trouble is that the Constitution does not give the Vice President much work to do. His sole, specific mission is to preside over the Senate. Since the jealous Senate has always made it plain that "preside" was to be interpreted in the narrowest possible sense, anybody who can stay awake can do that...
These episodes are the exception in a film which skillfully used reality to supplement melodrama. Although opportunities for exaggeration and heroic scenes are available, Mireille Balin as Gaby, and Line Noro as the jealous native Ines, help preserve the film's subdued brutality not only in their acting, but in their hard, brittle appearance. The result is the original Casbah adventure, still perhaps the most exciting in a long series of copies...
...unmarried are too busy with their frustrations. Women in general get too deeply involved in their jobs. They are too emotional. (Says one baffled male executive: "You can't talk to women the way you do to men. You hate to have them cry.") They are more jealous and gossipy than men. They are not tough enough. They dislike making decisions...