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...trick is to convince the people who liked what they read that they like what they see. Readers are a possessive lot; they have, in effect, already made their own imaginary film version of the book -- cast it, dressed the sets, directed the camera. They resent cuts and changes. The Bonfire of the Vanities would probably have flopped even if it weren't a lame movie, because Tom Wolfe had already created a great movie in the minds of his readers. Most of the popular novels that have become popular films (Red October, Presumed, Misery, Silence) are thrillers with strong...
...resent that you people think you have the right to judge my personal conduct," Kerrigan said. "I think that's despicable...
Wherever one travels, nerves are raw, tensions deep. Many of those who remained while Iraq pillaged and raped their land resent those who fled, and sizable numbers in both camps want nothing less than the wholesale expulsion of Kuwait's Palestinians, despite evidence that most opposed Saddam's perfidy...
...detest Big Oil? After all, observes Stegemeier, "No one seems too concerned when orange juice goes up after a freeze. Society says everyone should have a free market, except the oil industry." Harvard Medical School psychologist Steven Berglas, who works with corporations that suffer from image problems, concurs. "People resent powerful entities that control necessities like oil," he explains. "We can actually gain psychological control by hating them." Berglas also suspects that some civilians deflect their anti-Iraq feelings toward Big Oil, a more accessible target. "You and I are not flying F-15s," he says. "But we can really...
...certainly (jealous) would never harsh on Grunwald (jealous) or suggest that (jealous) he is guided by (jealous) anything other than (jealous) purely intellectual motives. He would certainly never resent anyone who might have more than an academic interest in Condom Week...