Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Effective too is Leontes's occasional facial tic, and the moment when, as he says, "'Tis Polixenes has made thee swell thus," he violently grabs Hermione's burgeoning belly. After the Delphic oracle eventually proclaims Leontes a "jealous tyrant" and the others blameless, this Leontes even pulls out a dagger to stab himself and has to be restrained (incidentally, in the source from which Shakespeare took the story, the king does commit suicide...
...private life. His 15-year marriage had broken up, and he had moved into an apartment in the Sugarhouse complex just a few days before the first fire; there was talk too that he was involved with another project staffer and that she had a friend who was jealous. Still, Garrett was respected and popular. On April 5, the staffers gave Garrett a birthday party. The next day, a Sunday, Yuba City firemen got another call, went to Garrett's apartment, and found his body, doused with some inflammable liquid, burning on the carpet just inside the door...
...black musician turns violent revolutionary after his new Model T is vandalized by jealous whites. Harry Houdini, the immortal escape artist, cannot slip from his mother's apron strings. He is also a man incapable of political thought because, in Doctorow's moving phrase, "he could not reason from his own hurt feelings...
...Edison there is another type of survival at stake. The company, already beleagured by tax problems with city, will take a major loss if it loses the MASCO institution's account. Edison is also jealous of the tax package MASCO may get it the deal goes through. That package would requred the institutions to pay about $1.1 million yearly, while Edison claims it would pay about $5 million in taxes on the delivered power...
...plot is apparently more suited to pulp melodrama than to serious fiction. Her book begins with a young black woman improbably named Ursa Corregidora and plunks her down in a seedy Kentucky dive in the 1940s where she works as a blues singer. Enter Ursa's jealous husband, Mutt Thomas, who hurls the heroine down a staircase, injuring her so badly that her womb has to be removed. Twenty years pass. Ursa's second marriage fails. Her career takes her no higher than another dive across town. But love is a torch song. In the end the blues...