Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Donald Sutherland is currently starring as Paul Mazurky's alter ego in Alex in Wonderland, a film directed by Mazursky. Alex tells of its director's efforts to come to grips with a second film after his premiere success in last year's Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. In Alex's best scene, Alex Sutherland-playing-Mazurky) visits a producer (actually played by Mazurky) who tries, with the aid of wines, a proferred trip to Paris, and a Chagall off his office wall, to encourage Alex in a couple of hot, new properties...
Columnist Joseph Kraft called it the President's same old "ego trip-taken now by proxy." The New York Times's James Reston simply called the suggestion "unspeakable...
...measure up to his conceptions of it. There was a tendency to play every scene, however small, as an historical watershed, surrounding it with apocalyptic fires and spinning it off into the cosmos. In his new book on the Apollo 11 moonshot, Of a Fire on the Moon, ego and history meet at half way, and it has taken a subject of no mean importance, the highest conscious design of the archimperium of the planet as well as a deliberate scaling down of his ego to bring the meeting...
...crying, the refugees, the bombed-out villagers, the farmers whose land now resembles the surface of the moon . . . . ) Our good radical mental picture of the long-suffering Asian leaves out the Laotian who is getting a good laugh and a fat pocketbook out of the American colonial ego trip...
...Senator Muskie endorsed the Johnson war strategy by running on the 1968 Democratic ticket with Hubert Humphrey. Senator Kennedy, embroiled in his own personal and political problems, has been cautious in his criticism until very recently. Senator Fulbright, a lonely and powerful figure, has too often let his towering ego conflict with his political duty...