Word: egos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flatly rejects the idea that football players relate the sport to their social lives as "crap," thinking instead that it is an ego trip for most of them, including himself...
Vogelsinger felt that his major problem as a Yale coach was deflating his players' ego. "Most of my players have a high school background of being a big fish in a small pond. Well, now all the fish are in one pot and we've got to work together...
...school, they are trying to develop themselves. It's not easy to place personal ego behind you out on the soccer field. You never really succeed until you make them realize that they'll get the most recognition when they all work for the same purpose...
...somebody something here at Yale after my ego trip with 'Love Story,'" Segal explained. Surely, his recent notoriety has resulted primarily from that novel, a short, unimposing book about a Harvard jock-scholar and his Radcliffe sweetheart who dies...
Fauss (Michael Pollard), a goofy mechanical genius, is the otherwise backward son of a suffocatin' maw and a sufferin' paw. Halsy (Robert Redford) is a full-time motorcycle rider, ego-tripper and ladysmith. But the steatopygous girls who follow him are, as he admits, "gland cases" and "hurting whores." Between race-track rack-ups and sexual hang-ups, the film is crowded with subject-but barren of object. It is impossible to hide what never existed; nonetheless Director Sidney Furie seems to be attempting an existential comedy. Local color is dabbed in by the numbers. Maw (Lucille Benson...