Word: egomanias
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This year, the only movie that I’m guaranteed to line up for on opening weekend is July’s Anchorman, in which Will Ferrell brings his Goulet voice (and its accompanying egomania) to the big screen. People who have seen the script have said that Anchorman could be a modern classic, and so far they’ve been proven right by the clip reel on the movie’s website (Ferrell to his dog: “You pooped in the refrigerator? . . . . I’m not even mad! That?...
Redd may have big dreams, but she works hard. Hers is a uniquely endearing egomania. Maybe it’s because her ambitions and quest for self-improvement are so unabashed and giddy, or because she is genuinely excited about just about everything, that it’s hard to dislike...
worst music | Michael Jackson It was supposed to be the new, relevant M.J., but Invincible arrived with the same shots at the paparazzi, cheesy rap cameos and creepy children's choirs in the background that marked his decline. Jackson did break some ground, shattering the record for artistic egomania by holding two tribute concerts to himself in September...
...practitioners stayed away because the keynote speaker was Nader. Michael Thorsness, a successful business trial lawyer, wrote a letter explaining his boycott. "Nader is the reason we have a sub-standard president," he explained to the center's director. "His ?campaign? was nothing more than an exercise in egomania and I, for one, will have no part of any proceeding in which he is involved...
Tradition forbade the Temple's enlargement beyond Solomon's original dimensions. So Herod expressed his egomania by adding a 35-acre platform--"the greatest ever heard of," writes Josephus--on which the Temple could sit. The Western Wall where Jews pray today is a small slice of the platform's 16-ft.-thick western side. Some of the stones are 30 ft. long and weigh up to 50 tons. ("Look, Teacher, what large stones and what large buildings!" exclaims a disciple in the Gospel of Mark.) As Herod built out over the adjacent valleys, the outline of the mountain...