Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Children are born anarchists. Babies reign in the solitary kingdom of ego, unable to distinguish the "I wanna" of whim from the "I gotta" of need. In an age of instant gratification and infant attention span, the popular arts have played to this childish impulse. Heavy-metal rock beats out its primal demands like a child pulling a high-chair tantrum. TV is the baby-sitter of a spoiled kid's dreams: it promises everything, never says no and lets you change the channel if you don't get what you want. And many movies these days are less adolescent...
Then he is off again for a sprint to Boston's Logan Airport en route to a final flourish in Atlanta. Bennett seems to revel, too, in these dashes, riding the fast lane in cars, in conversation, in politics. "He's got a big ego, and he knows it," says an associate. At Logan, Press Secretary Loye Miller tells him of an invitation from a TV talk show. "Crossfire wants you Saturday," he says. "Not Saturday," replies Bennett, a homebody who scorns the Potomac syndrome of "working the restaurants at night." He snorts, "A big status thing in Washington...
...barrio. During a visit to his old neighborhood, he pauses before a vacant lot bordered by a garbage dumper and two dilapidated cars. "Coming back really tore me up," he says. He would like to turn his great grandparents' old wood-frame house into a museum "not out of ego, but to show kids that starting from here, they can go anywhere they want." Yet it took him a while to find his own path. When Olmos was eight, his parents were divorced. It was a painful time, and Eddie took refuge from the street gangs and drugs by concentrating...
...Angeles Rams. Not that life at such all male places is that strenuous; how much muscle does it take to pick up a lunch check? Yet amid the antique rugs and deep leather chairs, the clubs do furnish a setting for the exertions of professional life: back slapping, ego massage and one "contact" sport -- making business connections. In short, though they offer relaxation, the clubs are places of business too. Meal tabs and annual dues that can run into the thousands of dollars are often picked up by a member's employer as a business expense...
...hopes to write that big novel; she's looking for peace and quiet. Instead they find a snake in their living room, a corpse in the garden and a mailman who thinks he's Mad Max in a pickup truck. The deepest injury is to Andy's authorial ego, when his book turns out stinky and she writes next year's best seller. In Smith's bruised glare you can see the befuddled pain of anyone married to a blockhead with writer's block. But that's just subplot. The main plot is barely sodded: sound effects in place...