David Hare's 1995 play seemed even richer on a second viewing, and Stephen Daldry's near-flawless revival made you believe that Bill Nighy's needy restaurateur and Carey Mulligan's puritanically idealist teacher really shared a complex emotional and sexual past.
And then there's the way Needy figures out what's happened to Jennifer – by feminine intuition!
Her best friend Anita (or "Needy" – one of Cody's slightly too clever clever emblematic names) Lesnicki, played by Amanda Seyfried of Big Love, Veronica Mars and Mamma Mia!, has known her since they were three ("Sandbox love never dies," she notes in voiceover), and acts as her sounding board, agony aunt and punching bag without complaint.
"One of our principles is to protect the needy people and to protect yourself as well.
Some finessing of his predecessor's legal aid cuts would restore access to justice to the most needy, without costing any more than Grayling had intended to spend.
I was needy and felt indebted to them.
He said international food aid would be available to prevent this, but "North Korea will not allow UN and private food donors to monitor the supply of food to needy people".
Today's front pages are just a procession of endless, needy, high-pitched partisan wailing, trapped deep inside an impossible circlejerk of negative feedback.
"We've had to start saying no," sighed Athina Pirounakis, whose charity, Aegina Volunteers, distributes food and clothes to the needy.
"This takes paramedics off the streets as they need to recover and speak to the police, which then affects how we respond to more needy patients later on," Blezard tells me.
His first campaigns involved a football club using membership fees to pay the school fees of needy children, while another project became a book bank in his home town.
