Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...husband killed the President, she said softly: "Yes, I do believe he did. I believe the man was capable of it." She also agreed with a suggestion from North Carolina Democrat Richardson Preyer that Oswald's motive was probably not political but a product of his own twisted ego. He would probably, she said, have gone after whoever was President at the time...
...Freedberg's statement that "if Smith would be rational and keep quiet, we could move on," has a Nixonian ring. Harvard's interests and those of the greatest art and anthropological institution in America will not be jeopardized by ego trips of scholastic primadonnas...
Danny is really a genteel, quiet guy who takes an earful too much of Bernie's ego--enough for him to ruin his relationship with sweet Deborah. Bernie, of course, never gets beyond his graphic stories...
...their Vegas engagement. "What a trial to be Norman Mailer, Billy Carter, Farrah Fawcett-Majors," John Leonard has written, "to have to grow a personality along the lines of one you invented, the one that sold; to have to compete with other fabricated personalities, inflations of cunning, blimps of ego." Celebrities also must cope with skeptical magazine profilers bent on finding the "real" person underneath...
...Billy Martin, it wasn't fun anymore. It was a threat to his ego and to his health. And so he bailed out. Goodbye, Billy, and good luck. You gave it the best you had. But up against the megalomania of your owner, it just wasn't enough...