Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York, but who passes her time in lonely solitude...Ellen, the epitome of the surburban housewite (complete with anorexic daughter) who conquers her boredom with a chain of lovers...Nikki, who takes the middle road and finds a New York career and a Connecticut family each jealous of the other...and Rachel, who serves her husband as social secretary until she grows tired of small-talk dinner parties and sleeping until noon...
Meanwhile, the family is in some distress: Ludovic's wife threatens suicide; Marthe's husband, jealous, even desists from his own love affairs to bring her to heel. Although Director Jean-Charles Tacchella manages some telling glimpses of family life, Cousin, Cousine becomes a sort of bourgeois anti-bourgeois parody. At its worst moments the movie looks like a musical without songs. Characters glide about, acting as if they are about to burst into song...
...Schmidt would give way to a discreet Franco-German directorate that would carry the idea of European unity beyond its present customs union status. Unfortunately, Schmidt lost his partner less than six months ago. Giscard d'Estaing's pro-European ideas were fiercely opposed by conservative Gaullists, ever so jealous of French sovereignty. Depending on the Gaullists for a Parliamentary majority, and facing stiff opposition from the Left, Giscard was forced to mothball his call for a greater European commitment...
...second night, all 180 delegates gathered to hear Liverpool Nightclub Comedian Ken Dodd get off a few dreadful one-liners (sample: "The Russians are jealous of the British because the Soviets never win any bronze medals"). The delegates laughed politely and the next morning repeated the jokes to one another. Observed a woman from New York City: "We had a very meaningful humor-making session...
...army instead. He thus played a minor role in the 1762 coup by which Catherine and Guards Officer Grigori Orlov overthrew Catherine's weakling husband Peter III. Orlov introduced young Potemkin into court circles, where he at once amused Catherine by imitating her German accent. Orlov soon became jealous, so he and his brother Aleksei picked a quarrel with Potemkin and severely beat him. This is one explanation, though unconfirmed, of how Potemkin lost an eye (hence his nickname, "Cyclops...