Word: egos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tantalizing question through the first tense days was how much the 43rd President was huddling with the 41st. Bush gave no hint, even to some of his closest aides, that he was talking to his father, but everyone in the West Wing assumed he was. Dad's diplomatic alter ego, Brent Scowcroft, was in regular communication with Rice, his former protege. Scowcroft worked quietly behind the scenes to tone down the initial response. Bush Sr., who spent part of last week in Europe but could have been in secure contact with the White House through embassy phone hookups, has always...
...even more ego gratifying than being kissed by models was rejecting people. One guy brought six models and promised to buy a bottle of champagne. I sent him back to his stretch limo. I shooed away a man who called himself Papa and tried to stuff a $50 in my palm. I sent home a Wall Street guy who kept offering to "take care of me" and making me look at his date. And I couldn't say yes to the guy with a bandage on his nose who wanted a sympathy ticket for his "deviated septum" surgery. I turned...
...magazine? Yeesh!), and throngs of screaming female fans can’t allay his low self-worth. Recently Williams disclosed that he stumbles into alcoholism every so often to “sabotage” his own success. Williams, who’s known for his cheeky displays of ego (and I mean “cheeky” literally—in the video for Rock DJ, he tears off the skin on his buttocks while receiving oral sex), told a London mag last week that he questions whether he “deserves” his fame...
...care about him anymore. After enduring drivel like The Postman, Message in a Bottle and For the Love of the Game (I exclude Waterworld because I actually think it was a darn good movie), even the most forgiving folk promised to boycott all future Costner exercises-in-ego. Which meant, of course, that Thirteen Days, his Cuban Missile Crisis drama which opened in December, tanked miserably and didn’t rack up the acclaim he clearly expected. So Costner railed against American audiences in interviews and decided that the movie was, uh, better suited for Cubans. He took...
...Americans tend to place ourselves at the center of the universe. So Wall Street's latest theory on foreign stocks--basically that we don't need them--may be the easiest pitch since Bogie wooed Bacall. The come-on plays to our ego and promises to simplify investing. The trouble is that like so many theories that come and go, it's based on what has been happening lately--which is anything but typical...