Word: ego
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is one of the few impossibilities that Verolme has ever admitted to. In 17 years, he has sailed out of obscurity into a position as one of the world's biggest shipbuilders. "I did it all myself." he says proudly. Verolme's ego is as big as the ocean, his shrewdness as deep, his drive as inexorable. He barks orders to associates until they are frazzled, is so restless that he rarely sits down; his first marriage ended in divorce because his wife could not keep up with his pace. He is, said one Dutch weekly...
Five Miles to Midnight. In the screaming jangle of a Paris nightclub. Lisa (Sophia Loren) is dancing le twist with head-back abandon. Enter Robert, the husband, whose winsome, small-boy smile reveals instantly that he is Tony Perkins. Moments later. Robert has bared his vicious little ego and in a fit of petulance is smacking the daylights out of Wife Lisa to launch this chilling story of mismatched mates. When Lisa gets the news that Robert's airliner, bound for Casablanca, has crashed near Bordeaux killing all on board, her grief is tempered with relief. Two nights later...
...soaring, searing performance that comes close to fulfilling Tennessee Williams' prophecy that she may become "the American Duse." Ben Gazzara plays the lover with dark, penetrating force, and Pat Hingle's Sam alternately snorts at life like a pig in a trough and tearfully contorts his bruised ego like an infant who has missed the 2 o'clock feeding...
...Communism, concluded that "Communism is infinitely more dangerous" because it is "a frightful simplification of the Messianic dreams which have haunted Western civilization for ages," sometimes with "frightful results." Foreign Policy Analyst Theodore Draper did a detailed study of Castro's Cuba, decided that "Fidel's ego may give the Communists as much trouble as it has given many others." China Expert Valentin Chu discovered enough evidence of widespread famine in Red China for a 7,500-word article that was reprinted in six languages...
...class warfare of musician and conductor is as old as ego. But to Szell, the whole scrap is an empty one. "We are all in the service of music," he says, "and we must approach it with all the good will possible." Because he is the most authoritarian man now conducting, this means play it his way, or else...