Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Always jealous of the attention their neighbor to the north pays to Europe and Asia, South American leaders are particularly concerned in an election year. Latin ambassadors in Washington have been bombarded with urgent inquiries from home about the presidential candidates' views on hemispheric issues, and even the most casual speech from the stump is scrutinized for hints of policy changes...
...butcher named Bedřich (Vladimir Menšík) has been executed for practicing his art on his wife, whom he found in bed with her lover. The back-to-front story of the trial, his discovery, the murder, his jealous suspicions, the happy honeymoon, the wedding, their first meeting, etc. is made brain-bendingly complicated by being worked for ironies on three levels. First, the narrative of the butcher's life in conventional chronology is matched to the action in reverse chronology (he tells about graduating from school into the world while the camera shows him emerging...
...gorge. Rochelle Owens' play is a sad saga of bestiality. Her preposterous moral is that people are beastlier than animals, particularly to a boy who prefers to make love to a sow. Cyrus Futz (John Bakos) loves Amanda, his sow, like a wife. A nympholeptic human pig gets jealous and goads the village rednecks into slaying the boy, preparatory to killing Amanda...
Bumps & Grinds. Although dated for today's audience-which Balanchine helped educate-Slaughter was a pioneer work that put ballet on Broadway permanently. With high-fidelity hauteur, Suzanne Farrell stormed tantalizingly through the bumps and grinds of the striptease girl, ably partnered by Arthur Mitchell as her jealous hoofer boy friend. The dance was all show-biz flash, far removed from the cool twelve-tone Balanchine ballets in which Farrell has frequently starred...
...with poverty. It sees any attempt to bring the poor up to or near its income level as a threat to its own position. The view is shortsighted, of course. Being poor in America really isn't much fun. But as long as a large group of voters is jealous of its position, Congress must be careful not to give the poor too much...