Word: ego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walks: studies identified many of the waterfowl poachers in Wisconsin as white-collar executives, while Missouri's deer poachers are largely unemployed workers. Some claim to be modern-day Robin Hoods, engaged in libertarian protest against Big Government. This amuses the rangers. The poachers' major motivation, says Grosz, is "ego and greed...
...lightning speed -- Carrey does with his body. He walks in sections, as if he had been pulled apart and then basted back together. He can freeze into an exclamation point or, doing his trademark hula, go all loose and noodle-y. Imagine a goyish Jerry Lewis with less ego and more self-esteem and you have Carrey. Crossbreed Lewis' The Nutty Professor with Batman and you have The Mask, with Carrey breathing life into director Charles Russell's tatty fable...
...Paul's obsession with being No. 1 will not be a good thing in the environment around Cambridge. Because once he gets here, he will find amazingly brilliant people. Published authors. Award-winning musicians. Unbelievable scientists. Harvard specializes in knocking down your ego, in letting you know that you may be smart, but there is always someone smarter...
...Hanks brings life to this original character, and after his Academy Award for "Philadelphia," Hanks has finally come into his own. (Of course, I couldn't help picturing him with his alter-ego Peter Schaffer from Bosom Buddies, but Hanks does a magnificent job in this film...
Seshan's ability to enforce reforms is in no small measure the result of his personal probity -- and his ego. "Nobody can tempt or terrorize me," he says. "I am unbelievably fearless. I also live a life of extraordinary simplicity. I don't want anything from anybody." A strict vegetarian who does not smoke or drink, Seshan brought back nothing other than a $1.25 yo-yo after a month's visit to the U.S. three years ago. Says Jaipal Reddy, a federal legislator of the opposition Janata Dal party: "He is a bully, but his financial integrity is unquestionable...