Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dancers themselves, the rewards are as much psychic as financial. "It's an ego trip for everybody," claims Stripper Garrett, who makes $600 a week, excluding the tips that women stuff into his G string. "It's hard later to put yourself back in the world with everyone else." There is, of course, the occasional occupational hazard: late last June, for example, Sexy Rexy, one of Freddy's Playboys, moved so well that an excited patron ripped off his bikini. An on-duty policewoman happened to be in the audience, and Rexy was subsequently arrested for indecent...
...Zimmer has given up on the hard sell. He's played his talent rather admirably, keeping sore elbows and ankles in check. No pulled groins on this ball club, no pulled ripcords. While Zimmer insists that he is doing nothing differently this year, everyone knows it's just ego. Behind Zimmer's ego is not an ounce of superego, just a whole bunce of id. Id like the Red Sox dugout exploding onto the field after they win the 1979 American League East title; id like the Boston Globe printing a photograph of his dough-and-steel visage on their...
They're Playing Our Song. Ego is not a show-biz put-on. It is essential armor...
...creating too much dissension among his big-name, high-salary players and replaced him with low-key Bob Lemon, who produced another championship. But last week, with the Yankees 7½ games back of the Baltimore Orioles, Steinbrenner soured on Lemon. Back came brash Billy with all his old ego and temperament intact. Yankee fans, who like Lemon but always loved Billy the more, greeted the prodigal with cheers and applause seldom equaled since Ruth in his prime, which isn't bad for a so-so infielder with a lifetime batting average...
...played Antoine Doinel in all five films, exquisitely depicts french life from the early sixties to the present day. Interweaving flashbacks from his pervious films. Truffaut presents the definitive and final portrait of Antoine in Love on the Run. Charming, irresponsible and utterly romantic, Doinel, the director's alter ego, makes love, writes, philosophizes, eats and drinks all with the same gallic enthusiasm. We know at the end that Antoine will remain forever the child who said "if I tell the truth they don't believe...