Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Here's to the substance beneath the surface. To the true color of the spirit rather than the color of the package." A noble sentiment, certainly. But when the speaker is Joan Collins, 50, one cannot help wondering: Is her television alter ego, Alexis Carrington, merely engaging once again in deceitful discourse for the sake of her own naughty ends? Not this time. The scene is from Blondes vs Brunettes, an ABC-TV special to be aired next week, which features TV's brunet queen meanie, Collins, and Morgan Fairchild, 34, a blond TV vixen. In one skit...
...should bear fardels. We would now say burdens and so, probably, would Shakespeare. Thus, in a Hamlet for 1984, "Who would fardels bear?" becomes "Who would burdens bear?" See? Anybody who has studied Elizabethan English, who has lots of time to waste and possesses a Falstaff-size ego can do it. Exit anybody. Enter A.L. Rowse, who proclaims himself "the world's leading authority on Shakespeare and his work" and who has made all these changes and more...
...found the most interesting part was trying to perfect the prose. I would spend hours on it every night--what an ego trip to begin writing and have all these people take an interest," says Jeffrey M. Rosen '86, who spent last summer canvassing France, Belgium, and Luxembourg...
Truman's Administration had "less ego than perhaps any other," said Frank Pace Jr. who served as Secretary of the Army and Director of the Bureau of the Budget under Truman. Truman appreciated modesty and "was able to say very complex things in a very simple way," he added...
...Chase & Sanborn show. But that meant that she was also the little sister of Charlie McCarthy, Bergen's cheeky, insulting, wise-guy dummy. A peculiar sibling rivalry existed, in fact, that went far beyond the obvious joke kept alive by newspaper feature writers. Charlie was a startling alter ego for the dour Swedish ventriloquist-that was what Candice Bergen made the act work so well-and he was already a star when Candy was tiny. She remembers that her father would put her on one of his knees, with Charlie sitting on the other, and squeeze the back...