Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...REAL PROOF of an all--too--worldly' morality lies in Dominique Sanda's Micol. Showing herself as an almost incestuous alter ego to Helmut Berger's Alberto, her cool beauty fails to mask a festering decadence that has been epitomized by Berger's own performances in Visconti's The Damned, and Bertollucci's The Conformist. While society is being corrupted outside the garden, the self-contained life-style perpetuated by the Finzi-Continis on the inside is rotting at the core. Raised as a bluestocking, Micol quips to Giorgio that she's writing her thesis on Emily Dickenson, "a dried...
...decibel dry hump. And Howard Wales' sterile charade delivers: drum solos with all the pulse of a seconal addict; keyboard work with all the sensuousness and imagination of a computer print out; treacly singing; the stage presence of a sloth; and above it all in smug squalor was the ego of Wales, ballooning over the audience with all the magnificence of a slug in heat...
Underneath the ebullient Kissinger exterior, friends have detected a touch of melancholia. His ego and his humor are a cover for his closely held deeper feelings, which he is reluctant to talk about or share in public. But at the moment he has cause to be contented. At the Washington Press Club last week, he joked about how he would like to "come to meetings of the National Security Council in dark glasses and tennis shoes. And I would like to hold all my briefings over the longdistance telephone. If I didn't like the way it turned...
...yourself get so much into your own ego trip that you ignore the audience," said Lenny. He was adamant. "This is the last thing you should let happen. If you do, there's no reason for you to be up there...
...Your article "The New American Samaritans" [Dec. 27] helped to redeem the sadly faded images of "charity" and "doing good" from their demise at the hands of cynics, ego-trippers and radicals of both right and left...