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...then there was bad press. A party in Colorado got rough. Rinpoche forced a couple to disrobe. Everyone later disrobed. No charges were brought. No one denied the published reports. One of the Buddhists there said it was a preparation for giving up privacy, learning to cut through ego clinging and fixation. Rinpoche said essentially it was no big deal. He drank a prodigious amount of alcohol, bedded many women, never denied either. It was "enlightened drinking," "enlightened sex." There was never a PTL-style scandal. It was simply The Way. In the end, the official Buddhist-reported cause...
...Maybe deep down he was a troubled person indeep conflict with himself, of trying to provesomething and wanting to make a statement aboutBlackness in some ultimate sense," Alexis said."That kind of search for an ultimate truth gotconfused with ego gratification," he said.Photo/APKennedy School Professor GLENN C. LOURY,right, seen with his attorney last week in BostonMunicipal Court...
...other hand, there are limits. Andreassi goes over the top and out the door playing the caddish pilot Yang Sun. When Brecht spoke of emotionally "distancing" the audience from the actors, he was thinking in terms of yards, not light-years. Though Shipley's male alter-ego Shui Ta is an outstanding piece of physical acting (her face is concealed by a mask), she never quite makes you believe that Shen Te was either a prostitute or someone who Did It All For Love. Joseph Costa is fine as an unemployed hobo, but in the important supporting role...
...catalogs the hilarities and humiliations of auditions, repeats Arthur Godfrey's introduction on Talent Scouts ("Vickie Lynn ((her stage name then)) is a beautiful girl with mounds of auburn hair and two of everything she needs"), recalls the anti-Semitism of her husband's friends, and displays some heated ego in an exchange with Sir Rudolf Bing, who had prevented her appearance at the Metropolitan Opera. Bing: "Not every great singer can sing at the Met." Bubbles: "Not every great singer wants to." Nor can every great singer walk away from $7.5 million worth of bookings in order to retire...
...Dame, he has said Mass at the South Pole and at the Faculty House of the University of Moscow. (The difference between God and Hesburgh, goes an old campus joke, is that God is everywhere and Hesburgh everywhere but Notre Dame.) With this spiritual nourishment fed into a healthy ego, he retains a natural sense of command. "The very essence of leadership is you have to have a vision," he says. "It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." During student unrest...