Word: egos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once upon a time, a 153-lb. chemistry teacher named Julius Kelp wanted to grow big and strong, or anyway be smooth and cool--sort of like Frank Sinatra on a bad ego day--and in his lab he concocted a formula that permitted him to realize that dubious dream. Thus was The Nutty Professor, central work in the Jerry Lewis oeuvre, born...
...Murphy, happily, is something Lewis never was: a comic actor of astonishing range. He is able to invest his Professor Klump with an endearing dignity, give his lounge lizard alter ego, Buddy Love, an alligator's bite and then go on from there to play Klump's grandma. Also his mother, father and brother...
...Sometimes people's egos get in their way with negotiation," Bozzotto said. "What he did was in a sense check his ego at the door and really filter through the pros and cons of all the issues that were raised, and then come up with ways that it could be settled...
Each year, Harvard students and administrators eagerly await the ego-stroking U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best colleges in the country. Harvard has been fortunate enough to lead in numerous categories, from student satisfaction to faculty caliber to academic rigor...
Likewise, they already have one foot out the door, poised to abandon the temperamental New England weather, overcrowded Core courses, the occasional typically Harvardian ego and the stress of work in general...