Word: egos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rise. As beggars panhandle on Bucharest's crumbling sidewalks, welding torches glow night and day at the site of a monumental government complex, part of a multibillion-dollar "modernization" program that has already flattened almost half the capital's centuries-old historic district. In the meantime, Ceausescu feeds his ego with the only officially sanctioned personality cult in the East bloc. Says a Western diplomat in Bucharest: "The situation before was terrible, but now it is surrealistic. Ceausescu is going around the bend, and he is taking his country with...
...snakes. The years have changed nothing except to add emotional texture. McQueen is still cute, but now conveys heartache beneath. De Shields has ripened from Superfly sleekness into a leading man's virility. The biggest change is in Carter, whose widely publicized battles with weight, cocaine and star-size ego have enriched her brassy sensuality with a survivor's stare of defiance...
...another, ducked the war in Viet Nam. Others include such Reagan Administration foreign policy hard-liners as Elliott Abrams and Richard Perle, Commentator Patrick Buchanan, and even Sylvester Stallone (who taught at a girls' school in Switzerland while the Commies were being beastly to his fantasy alter ego John Rambo). A similar Quayle-like controversy also surrounds the Rev. Pat Robertson, whose father, a Senator, may have helped him avoid combat in Korea...
...mess like The Cotton Club (1984), he was capable of striking stunning imagery, bold intensifications of reality that lodged permanently in one's movie memory. But the narratives carrying them did not seem to engage his emotions fully. Coppola was a director for hire to his own ego, and his personal drama, mostly involving multiple brushes with bankruptcy, was more dramatic than anything he placed on the screen...
Every stable society transmits values from one generation to the next. That is the work of civilization. In the Freudian scheme, it means the construction of a strong ego and superego above the dark basement of the id. Today in American culture, the barbarous id is both powerful and profitable (in the drug underworld and the entertainment industry, for example). The transmission of values is more difficult. Today's parents are often raising children in a world far removed from their own memories of childhood...