Word: egomaniacs
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...have never been spoken to like that in my entire life," says the pretty, pushy woman who has elbowed her way into the briskly cross-talking circle around egomaniac Matinee Idol Garry Essendine. "Well, make the most of it," he replies, throwing the line casually away over his shoulder, serenely confident that there are hundreds more where that one came from...
...loyalty should count at all in considering the sentences, it should be loyalty to basic principles of justice and not to any particular egomaniac. That Sirica's sentences were some of the stiffest in the entire Watergate nexus of crime and corruption attests to the gravity of this particular trial and its consequences. Enough of Watergate has already been obfuscated and forgotten for four of its most active participants to be mildly scolded and sent off to resume high social, if not powerful, positions in American society again...
...characteristic remark. The egomaniac was, in fact, a modest man. The vain Lothario had been married almost 50 years to the same woman. The skinflint was a great tipper...
...once sense, he felt vindicated. They had gotten him in the end. All magnas, and yet one egomaniac English professor could screw him. It even made him feel important: These were not unimportant people who had set out to get him. This was the kingpin, the big fish...
Duck v. Pigeon. "He's a natural egomaniac," says Powers. "But he's been a great help in picking up girls in Beverly Hills. I get out of the car, then he comes up and babbles a lot of nonsense, and the girls figure that anyone who knows anyone that mad can't be all bad." One such incident, however, turned out to be costly. Bobby, who had been drinking, fell asleep, and the girl walked off with $1,800 in cash from his trousers pocket. "There wasn't even any sex," says Riggs...