Word: egos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most endearing quality about Dearborn's biography is how it illustrates Mailer's colossal ego and his ultimate failure to live up to his own image of himself. The biography could almost paint Mailer in a tragic light, but ultimately he seems too unconcerned, too disconnected from a reality and an America that he himself helped to fashion. Instead, Mailer's life appears comic, with the only constant being his love of shock tactics and always appearing unpredictable. Although he has lived a life full of exciting people and events, I don't necessarily envy Norman Mailer. It seems like...
Batman had Robin. Johnny had Ed. Every Alpha needs a Beta, especially on the ego-crushing gauntlet known as the presidential race. Here's a look at those tireless bundles of hype and positive energy, the Campaign 2000 sidekicks...
...Hayes '00 is on top of the world - the senior has several West Coast job offers under his belt and no thesis deadline to worry about. Jacque spends his nights at Grafton in lieu of more trivial pursuits like the Bee formal. Friends of Jacque worry that his ego is spinning totally out of control...
...changes his life. Only the bug that bit Stan Lee isn't radioactive; it's interactive. With the print-comics industry besieged by villains (the rapacious Sega! the Pokemon league of doom!), the co-creator of the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and Parker's alter ego, Spider-Man, is taking comics online. (Insert "Web"-slinging pun here...
...writers like Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, John Updike and Gore Vidal know how transparent and boring they are in launching their bruised-ego slurs against others in their field? There is plenty of room on this planet for all great writers to reap their monetary and psychological rewards without resorting to such laughable tactics. DALE N. WICKLIFFE Phoenix, Ariz...