Word: ego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...getting out of the deal, Huizenga said, "While it may not be a great victory for me, it's a very, very great victory for the Blockbuster shareholders." From Huizenga's point of view, the Viacom deal may be more a question of corporate survival than personal ego. Although he maintains that emerging interactive television will not hurt his video business, analysts say the new technology poses a serious threat to Blockbuster's future. "Why else would Huizenga practically give away the store?" asks Jessica Reif, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. "He's giving up hard, cold cash for stock...
...them with more tact or to better dramatic and emotional effect. There is a kind of morality -- a respect for one's tools and materials and for the intelligence of the beholder's eye -- in the craftsmanship he has deployed. It serves the interests of the tale, not the ego of the teller. In the annals of Hollywood "clout," this is almost as astonishing as the movie itself...
...scrupulous in getting at the facts. Superficial journalism is worse than no journalism, and the article in question is a case in point. Though it seems doubtful that TM would lead to a debacle such as the Branch Davidian conflagration in Waco, Texas last summer, the slow disintegration of ego and self-esteem occasioned by the mind control of more "peaceable" cults can prove to be a living hell to those under its control...
...honor that you, your friends and your mothers come from so many different places just to see where I live. It's quite an ego boost to think that I am playing on home video in thousands of households all over the planet. It is only a certain amount of time, however, before you won't be welcome any-more. I might start chucking poster gum at you from a third-floor window, or pour White Bean Medley on the heads of your loved ones...
...professional followers into the public mind and discourse. People who have never read a word of his work (a voluminous 24 volumes in the standard English translation) nonetheless "know" of things that can be traced, sometimes circuitously, back to Freud: penis envy; castration anxiety; phallic symbols; the ego, id and superego; repressed memories; Oedipal itches; sexual sublimation. This rich panoply of metaphors for the mental life has become, across wide swaths of the globe, something very close to common knowledge...