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From the start, Lynn recalls, Vanessa weathered the rackety Redgraves with ego intact: "She was the only one of us who wasn't shy. If someone asked her to get up and sing, it wouldn't have bothered her for three seconds." The family's expectation that Redgrave would go into show business was tempered by her abrupt adolescent growth spurt to an eventual 5 ft. 11 in. She towered over classmates of both sexes and was considered too tall for anything but character parts. Her father had her study ballet so she would move well and tap dancing...
...woman is intelligent--and, worse, refuses to lay aside her intellect in worshipful reverence for the male ego--she should be immediately put in her place. How? Of course--deprecate her appearance! Call her not only ugly, but also give her the scarlet brand, the ultimate insult--call her "fat," as many did in response to her initial sarcastic dismissal of "Ollie," the prototypical Harvard Man--which is not only ludious, but is also illustrative of the attitude that appearance, and especially ideal body weight, is a key determinant of value in a woman...
Churchill was no hero to the House of Commons, though. Conservative regulars mistrusted him for his 20-year defection to the Liberals, while liberals blamed him for the ill-fated British intervention in Russia in 1918-19. He had a large ego and a sharp tongue, and he drank too much brandy, but he also had qualities that were to prove indispensable -- courage, eloquence, energy and a passionate determination to save British democracy. No sooner had the Germans invaded Poland than Chamberlain reluctantly invited his chief critic to No. 10 Downing Street and asked him to join the Cabinet; Churchill...
...more than 500, as it happens. By contributing to the 1989 New York City survey, about 3,500 serious eaters got free copies of the guide, as well as anonymous ego trips. That guide sold in excess of 200,000 copies and was bought in bulk by some 300 corporations to hand out to favored customers. Over the years, the surveys have earned "several millions," admits Zagat, whose possible future projects include a theater survey, a restaurant guide for kids, a telephone-access national data bank of restaurant information. And what about, um, Paris? "We may do other places...
...year ago, in the heat of an August summer, Democrats were trying to solve the "Jesse problem." Overlooked for the vice-presidential nomination, Jesse Jackson continued to use the campaign as a rallying point for his cause: a cause some would call social/political reform, and others would call ego-mania...