Word: ego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...borrow Nelson Rockefeller's words, no politician with an ego--which means all politicians--has ever wanted to be "vice president of anything." But being Veep is still the surest road to the top, which is why Gore-Kemp will be worth watching even if Clinton-Dole never rises beyond a boring done deal...
Adam Sandler is of the new S.N.L. breed. His Cajun Man, Opera Man and the rest were not varied characters; they were expressions of one capacious ego. The issue for him was not selling out but finding a buyer. And Hollywood, ever desperate for performers with male-teen appeal, bought. Sandler's first two films, Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, were crude and slouchy, but they returned enough money on modest investments to turn Sandler into the next worst thing to a movie star. Now he raises the stakes, playing in director Ernest Dickerson's industrial-strength action comedy Bulletproof...
With money like that, Farrakhan could have taught H. Ross Perot and the late Howard Hughes a thing or two about eccentricity. He shares Perot's elephantine ego, endless self-righteousness, grandiose political ambitions and deep-seated belief that people are plotting against him. Some of his notions--like the mystical importance of the number 19 and his claim to have taken trips on alien spacecraft--are as cockamamie as Hughes' obsession with germs. As far as I know, neither Perot nor Hughes ever pretended to speak on behalf of God. For Farrakhan and his followers, such miracles are strictly...
Even without Gaddafi's largesse, Farrakhan has a good deal of familiarity with the life-styles of the rich and famous. He has big houses in Chicago's Hyde Park and the Arizona desert, a chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz and a killer wardrobe. And if his ego ever needs a boost, there are plenty of sycophants around to give in to his demands. Two weeks ago, several hundred of my fellow members of the National Association of Black Journalists meekly permitted Farrakhan's Fruit of Islam to frisk them before they entered the hall where he was speaking--an indignity...
While Farrakhan's bank account may not be any bigger when he returns from his latest powwow with Gaddafi, his ego will be inflamed. He plans to address an African-American political summit in St. Louis, Missouri, later this month, followed by a World's Day of Atonement on Oct. 16, the anniversary of the Million Man March (which incidentally wound up $66,000 in the hole, according to the Nation of Islam's calculations). One can only hope most people will ignore both events, but that hope is probably in vain. African Americans are so starved for inspiring leadership...