Word: ego
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...There's no real purpose to this dialogue (a tenuous connection to a murder later on is all), and it only seems to serve as a conceit: no great witticism, but maybe something no one's bothered to write down before, which seems to appeal to the writer's ego as it confuses the audience...
...began with the script. There were five in all. Benchley (grandson of Humorist Robert Benchley) says he "lost the ego problem" after completion of the second. He wrote a third draft, which was subsequently reworked by such diverse hands as Playwright Howard Sackler (The Great White Hope), Director John Milius (The Wind and the Lion) and Carl Gottlieb, an actor who had played improvisational comedy with the California-based troupe, The Committee, and who had a small role in the film. The last version was rejiggered nightly out on location...
...being shortchanged in the number of acceptances would inspire any sort of a letter or phone call campaign by alumni. But even then the feedback would probably come mostly individually, with the club itself not acting as any sort of interest group. Such was the case when Episcopal Academy, ego badly bruised by a series of admittance-less years, spoke up and garnered three acceptances in this year's crop...
...analyzed the Faculty. "I have always found that the other side of a grant, arrogant ego is a painful desire to be petted and stroked Where else would that apply more...
...politics, and during his stay at the White House, Scali accompanied the President on his trips to the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. In the process, Scali also earned the dislike of Henry Kissinger. While in Washington, Scali bristled at the king-size Kissinger ego, and of late at the U.N. relations between the two men have grown increasingly strained. Scali was especially annoyed by Kissinger's recent hard line toward Israel, as well as by Kissinger moves that obliged Scali, in his view, to mislead his U.N. colleagues about U.S. aims and activities...