Word: ego
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THAT, OF COURSE, is the problem with abusive candies. No one likes to be laughed at; you face a real ego blow if you have to spit out a Mega Warhead...
...peace with the attention that attends world-class competition. "Shannon's always had the talent, but would never take her eyes off the floor," says her balance-beam coach, Peggy Liddick. "She's had to overcome her shyness and learn to play to a crowd." Miller masks well the ego that helped get her to this point. She does not read her own press clips and refuses to watch videotapes of her performances, except for training purposes. "I would rather do gymnastics than watch it," she says...
...current storyline about a clearly fraudulent "investment advisor" seems to be pretty good although Dilbert's alter ego, Dogbert, and his School of Common Sense for truly stupid people are nowhere to be found. What's funnier is that although Dilbert recognizes that to give his money to this guy is the equivalent of "flinging" his hard earned cash "out the window," he will probably invest with this guy anyway, just as he always asks out women who will inevitably humiliate him in some excruciatingly painful fashion...
Schauer received that first phone call, which he calls "ego management," The callers--usually department heads--tell the professors that there is a considerable interest in hiring someone for their departments. What the potential employer is saying, says Schauer, is "We want you to enter a competition, and youmight...
...memorably caustic social novel of Manhattan's decay. The two books, however, don't really resemble each other beyond their shared setting. Wolfe despises his characters and creates them in order to hold them up to ridicule, wriggling and in pain. McInerney cares deeply about the silly, grasping, ego-swollen pipsqueaks -- fairly decent, fairly normal people -- he invents. Wolfe's cold contempt gives the reader distance, a panoramic view of an ant colony. McInerney shows us human beings who feel wretched as they behave badly...