Word: egos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glass windows, the standard Italian names, clash oddly with the smattering of tagged-on Harvard jokes to keep the setting questionable. Adina shuns Nemorino's attentions and smiles instead on Sergeant Belcore, a grimacing, pillow-stuffed dandy who has just marched into town and showered her with his military ego...
When John Paul visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, he was obviously stirred by the photographs of bomb victims and the heat-fused chunks of stone and metal. He paused for a full three minutes at the visitors' book before he wrote, "Ego cogito cogitationes pacis et non afflictionis, dicit Dominus." (It was a paraphrase of Jeremiah 29:11, "For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction...
...been deleted in favor of more relevant facts. Instead, we know more than we care to about Stroup, his desperado rep in dull old Washington, the deluge of drugs pushed on him by grateful constituents, the beautiful people of the counter-culture that he hung with, and his gigantic ego that would lead to his downfall. Anderson describes Stroup...
They also strike close to the durable American dream of macho romance and derringer-do, the image of cowboy as hero and cowgirl as valiant pardner. Several hundred western-style watering holes feature bucking mechanical bulls on which patrons of both sexes risk serious damage to body and ego (see box). A spot called Outlaws, formerly a mud-wrestling disco outside Chicago, provides roisterers (for $2 a pair) with Harrington & Richardson .22-cal. western-style revolvers and nine blank rounds for mock shootouts. At some places, mostly for atmosphere, there are signs announcing NO GUNS, NO KNIVES. NO TIES...
While Vance concentrated on a few major concerns-the SALT negotiations, the Camp David accords-Christopher ran the rest of the State Department. Says Vance: "He really was in every sense an alter ego to me." Christopher intended to resign last April if he was not named to succeed Vance. In the end, however, Carter and the new Secretary, Edmund Muskie, persuaded him to stay on. For the past eight months, some observers assert, Christopher has been the Secretary in all but name, while Muskie has concerned himself chiefly with the public side...