Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...felt terrific to be a part of the streak," Fish said. "But you can't improve without losing. Despite an individual coach's ego, the sport is better off when a team doesn't win all the time...
Sustained, coherent narrative is not, shall we say, Janowitz's great strength, and neither is dramatic characterization. Eleanor (the normally perky, cuddly Bernadette Peters in sadly deflated condition) is a designer of funky hats who suffers from a possibly justifiable weakness of the ego. She lives with a graffiti artist named Stash (Adam Coleman Howard) who has a definitely unjustified air of superiority. Before they finally break up, this tedious pair go to many noisy parties and performance-art evenings. Along the way, art-world fights, flirtations and fornications are noted but not explored in a script that is always...
...Some members argued that they alone were knowledgeable enough to gauge a candidate's qualifications for the job. They warned that the unlettered rabble that is the Harvard student body might thrust some satanic demagogue on them, who would paralyze the council under the weight of his or her ego...
Joyner's not on an ego trip like past Olympic winners. She didn't have 20 bodyguards pushing away autograph-seekers. She was just with her husband, Al Joyner. She signed autograph after autograph, and took picture after picture. She is a charismatic person...
...menu of activities, priced them fantastically and still cannot always keep up with demand. Though roughly half the guests at any given time are there on business, they still seem willing to spend whatever free time and discretionary income they have on making their trip memorable. "There's an ego boost in going home saying 'We took a helicopter to a remote spot and had a picnic just for two,' " observes Patrick Cowell, a regional vice president of Hyatt Resorts Hawaii and the hotel's managing director. "Can't you imagine that kind of story in the Des Moines bridge...