Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late '70s, however, the fees suddenly doubled and tripled. When the Riviera signed Dolly Parton for a widely publicized $350,000 a week in 1979, every other entertainer in town put a call through to his agent. As Jenkins remembers it: "Every other performer with an ego the size of the Astrodome said, 'If that big-bosomed broad is making that kind of money, I should be too.' " Two years ago, the bubble burst: for only the second time in its 50-year history as a gambling resort, Las Vegas felt the effects of a national recession...
...they watch the golden goose waddling away, even some of the entertainers are angry at their greedier colleagues. "Star entertainers have escalated salaries to the point that they have become prohibitive," complains Comedian Norm Crosby. "It is not living money they are asking for. It is ego money." Says Robert Goulet: "Performers have priced themselves out of work. No one deserves the money some of them were getting...
They also treasure access to power or aspire to it. Reagan likes to stay in amiable touch and knows that White House dinner invitations are ego enhancing. After the Times article appeared, he telephoned Podhoretz, agreeing with much of his argument but pleading necessity for his own tactics. He sent Will the speech he was going to deliver to the English Parliament, asking advice; Will thought it "ghastly" and wrote another; Reagan used a third version with borrowings from Will...
...Haig's unruly ego escape and turn on him? Probably, in some fashion...
Political Cartoonist Garry Trudeau at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.: "It is no wonder that you've given up on the culture. With no credible ego models, what's left but to Garry Trudeau flock to your bookstores and buy handbooks on living preppies, dead cats, inert cubes, living cats and dead preppies-the subjects of the five bestselling titles on American campuses last year? These are books for minds at rest. They are also the books favored by the rest of the nation, which suggests that the post-Viet Nam fatigue syndrome...