Word: ego
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...idea of the whole race is training," MacLaurin said. "It's nice to do well, maybe it's a little ego boost, but it has very little to do with the actual rowing of a boat and making the team go faster...
...longest droughts in Celtic history (drought defined as consecutive years without a championship) have occurred during years when the ownership of the Celtics was not committed to winning championships. In the early 70s, John Y. Brown's ego forced Red to actually contemplate switching to the Knickerbockers. The current 'kid Gaston' era is an even bigger disgrace. Money won't be spent on free agents; there will no inventive trades around the salary cap (or mounting a legal challenge to the rule set up to keep the Celts and Lakers at bay); they won't hire competent coaches and general...
Gates' vast wealth is surpassed only by his enormous ego. He is a bright techno-geek who simply got lucky with some basic programming, then hired the right marketing gurus and cornered the emerging software market. Gates' pathological personality traits show him to be more akin to Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan than Albert Einstein; his ruthless and paranoid approach to business practice is driven not by intellect but by pathetic will-to-power. JAIMIE BUCHANAN Toronto...
Fierce Creatures is not a sequel in the usual sense of the word. But it does reassemble the key zanies of A Fish Called Wanda: Kevin Kline, all ego and libido and stupid schemes; John Cleese, all British pomp, phlegm and cluelessness; Jamie Lee Curtis, still innocent of the effect her form encased in a tight dress can have on impressionable males; Michael Palin, just plain innocent, but with his former stammer replaced now by another verbal disability--logorrhea...
...Tantrums and Tiaras, ELTON JOHN reveals that he never travels without a tiara or two (and trunkloads of loud suits). Now he finally has some fashionable frocks to go with them. While he may not have the traditional ectomorphic build of the supermodels, John certainly has a similarly mesomorphic ego. And as this photo (shot by Richard Avedon for Gianni Versace) reveals, a little makeup--or even a lot--and the right attitude work wonders. "Elton is more than a pal for me: he's my brother by choice," coos Versace, for whose runway shows John often writes songs...