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Carter's ego-boosting appearance before the N.E.A. was the highlight of a frantic week of sputtering presidential fireworks, or possibly distress signals, as he tried to generate momentum for his campaign. Though he had just returned from a moderately upbeat trip to Europe, Carter took off on another 15-day marathon that would wing him twice across the U.S., then to Japan, then to a stopover in Alaska on the way back and finally to a few days of rest at Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia, where he would watch the Republican Convention...
...think that it is healthy. If he were advocating some view that both parties were neglecting, then it could be healthy. But his campaign just smacks of an ego trip to me. And frankly, other than his 50? a gallon tax on gasoline, I'd like to know what the hell he represents. I don't see what it is that he's really after, or what it is that he's preaching...
...some of Grigorovich's problems appear to be backstage ego jostling, many others involve fundamental questions of policy. A former character dancer, he came to the Bolshoi in 1964 from its great rival, the Kirov, bringing successful new works with him. Then as now, the Kirov exemplified the ideal of a pure, classical style. The Bolshoi, by contrast, championed a more soulfully Slavic style, often bold and gaudy. Grigorovich seemed to offer the hope of synthesizing the best of both companies. In 1968 he created a hit, Spartacus, with its surging mass movements, virile male roles and a long...
...them. A Northeast Louisiana University student, Arden Chapman, caught in his mouth a grape thrown the longest distance-259ft. It is easy to understand the performer's urge to do the improbable, the difficult, the unique, the best. Claiming a record, any record, provides massage to the ego, varnish for the pride and a tic of celebrity. To hold a record, in the words of Allen Guttmann, professor of American Studies at Amherst College, "is a uniquely modern form of immortality...
...schizophrenic attitude among consumers. E.E. Norris, executive vice president of the Manhattan ad agency Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, has nicknamed this the "splurge or scrimp" mentality. He argues that today's consumers are willing to spend heavily on goods and services that they value highly either for their ego satisfaction or convenience, such as Gucci shoes or Cuisinarts. But on products that they do not value so much, buyers are cutting corners. The extreme example: the Mercedes owner who wears K Mart clothes. Says Norris: "The consumer would rather have some good life and some bad than no good...