Word: egos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite King's monumental ego, when he sits down in front of a microphone or camera to conduct an interview, he seems to undergo a personality change. Suddenly, his favorite subject -- himself -- is no longer on the table. "I don't consider myself a journalist," King says, "but journalism results from what I do." In other words, he doesn't try to elicit facts so much as feelings, emotions, motives. "I like questions that begin with 'why' and 'how,' and I listen to the answers, which leads to more questions." It works: when Perot on his CNN Larry King Live...
...seminal work Harlem Renaissance, the late Professor Nathan Huggins made the following observation: "Whites have needed the blackface minstrel mask--a guise of alter ego. And blacks--sensing this psychic dependency--have been all too willing to join in the charade, hiding behind that minstrel mask, appearing to be what white men wanted them to be, and finding pleasure in the deception which too often was a trick on themselves...
...history of modernism is suffused with cults of artistic ego and rampant "originality" -- especially Surrealism, the movement Magritte was linked to. But he made a virtue of anonymity, disappearing behind the work like one of the partly vanishing, ambiguous figures in his own paintings. Apart from a short stay in Paris (1927-30), Magritte spent his whole adult life in Brussels, issuing his mind-wrenching visual conundrums from a base of the most perfect bourgeois propriety, using a corner of his living room for a studio and never painting any naked woman but his wife Georgette, who, in return, never...
...twins. We wage fratricidal war -- ego vs. id, propriety vs. instinct, the will to do good vs. the itch to raise hell -- on the battlefield of our split souls. What is civilization if not the successful repression of the evil twin in all of us? And what is cinema if not an artful evocation of that same malevolent impulse? Seeing a thriller, we are schizo sibs: the part of us that is scared and the part that knows it's only a movie...
THAT, OF COURSE, is the problem with abusive candies. No one likes to be laughed at; you face a real ego blow if you have to spit out a Mega Warhead...