Word: egos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole class of people, heavily overlapping with the in vitro class, who coach their toddlers to get into the nursery schools that offer a fast track to Harvard. You don't have to have been born in a test tube to be an extension of someone else's ego...
...select a new No. 2 who can run the department while he's away. The Secretary will be traveling a great deal in the coming months, says a senior aide, "so he needs someone here who can manage the other big issues, who can really serve as alter ego." One candidate is Thomas Pickering, now the ambassador to Russia, who has an excellent reputation for getting things done, albeit by leaving a lot of smashed crockery in his wake...
...would not have expected him to direct Ibsen or to cast himself repeatedly in romantic leads decades younger than he is. At the dawning of his grandiosely named National Actors Theatre, Randall recalled last week, New York Times critic Frank Rich characterized the venture as a TV actor's ego trip...
Theater: Is Tony Randall's troupe an ego trip -- or more...
...laughing so hard she was crying. My dad ruffled my hair and said, "So this is the sleaze you work with." Okay, so it didn't boost my ego, and I felt a bit foolish for worrying, but their reaction did remind me not to take the tension over the magazine so seriously...