Word: egocentricism
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Drawing freely from the classic characters of the whodunnit genre, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Miss Marples, Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles, and Earl Derr Biggers's Charlie Chan are refurbished by Simon and his all-star cast, and introduced as Miss Marples (Elsa...
The aging frontiersman is surrounded by an entourage of relatives, managers, flacks (Harvey Keitel, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy) who are devoted about equally to managing his affairs profitably and to seeing that his egocentric whims do not cut too deeply into those profits. As usual in Altman's films...
Slocum's family, too, suffers from the same kind of egocentric personalities--nothing they do is valuable or redeeming, except perhaps Slocum's nine-year-old son--who, like his sixteen-year-old sister and mother, goes unnamed. Heller portrays their constant bickering, their petty desires, and all the time...
"Nursing our economic wounds, preoccupied with domestic issues, uncertain of our position in the world," Schaetzel claims, "we have become more annoyed with our allies than with our enemies." Nonetheless, he adds that the U.S. is not solely to blame: "All of the countries have become egocentric."
Young Winston does make a pretense of revealing some of the less attractive sides of Churchill's personally, but does so in a shallow, journalistic sense which avoids the darker recessed of a very complex man. The young Churchill was brash, egocentric, wholly absorbed in his political career. He blatantly...