Word: egos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to championship Persians to make ends meet. Says Gebhardt, at his Denville, N.J., kennel-cattery: "Raising dogs can be big business. You can depend on it for your livelihood. Cat people have to love the animal, because there's nothing to get from it but personal ego satisfaction." Gebhardt's glow is provided by Voodoo, a great black Persian champion who sired 200 championship kittens. Recalls Gebhardt: "Voodoo was the feline answer...
...upstart tennis bats an poach a few quick sets from your weekly partner. Flaunt that ego But hurry, because the word-of-mouth fad has taken off like a Harold Solomon moon ball and soon your opponent will indulge himself with the weapon. Then you and your rival will both be using oversized racquets. Thus, eventually the racquets will neutralize each other and everyone will be serving from zero. But in tennis that means love...
...really cute, the best screamer since Fay Wray and in a class by herself as a whiner. Donald Pleasance is back too as the flip side of the Shape, a nubby, sexless, shapeless little fanatic, certainly a speed freak, killing innocent people in pursuit of his alter-ego. He gets offed too in the big La Traviata finale. They must have had a blast making this movie...
...seven days a week. After Volume V came Will's announcement, at 69, that "the imminence of senility" would bring the work to an end with Volume VII. But it was only at age 90, after Volume XI-The Age of Napoleon-that Durant retired. "The ego is willing," he said, "but the machine cannot...
...years, Sir's dresser Norman (Tom Courtenay) has shielded him from difficulties and the truths that sear. Playing loyal serf to imperious sovereign, he has bolstered Sir's morale, salved his ego, washed his underpants, suffered his diatribes and basked in the reflected glory of his occasional triumphs upon the stage. Norman is nimble-witted, mocking, tartly observant, yet given to foggily elusive reminiscence. His most trusted friend seems to be the half-bottle of Scotch in his back pocket. Norman is a homosexual, but his love for Sir is protective, albeit possessive, and achingly platonic...