Word: egos
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There's a certain lack of ego necessary to quit at the height of your career, to willingly get back in line with the public. Larson, who looks like a Seattle version of Dick Cheney dressed for a hike, with black-frame glasses and a ring of white hair slightly long in the back, has not been tempted to unretire because he feels a sense of completion. "We all have an innate desire to push a rock up a hill, and I felt I had pushed the rock up to the top of the hill, to beat that analogy...
...screen, Guinness was uncertain about how much of himself to reveal. He craved the attention that exposure can bring, but was reluctant to submit himself to the spotlight. He implied this conflict in the preface to his 1985 autobiography, Blessings in Disguise: "[At the suggestion of an autobiography] ? Ego was immensely flattered and I was appalled." Guinness, a fervent Catholic, always appeared to shun public attention and yet at the same time made damn sure he got it. He forbade any tribute after his death. Yet he published two further volumes of diaries (revealing as little as possible), and according...
...found a kindred spirit of President Bush in the most unlikely of places: that hotbed of crunchy-granola liberalism, Seattle. Bush’s alter ego appeared in an Associated Press photo, brandishing a placard that proclaimed, “NO ESPRESSO TAX!” His ire was directed at a 10-cent tax on espresso drinks that would have paid for an early childhood education program. I wondered, for a moment, why someone would get so hung up about a miniscule tax that would have funded such an impeccably good cause. But of course, this...
Barry Bonds is for once the nicest story in baseball. Even while having to maneuver around his enormous ego, no one denies his performances before and after his father’s death were heart-warming. Add to that the Giants’ domination of the weak NL West after getting their hearts broken in last year’s World Series, and Bonds becomes the feel good story of the year...
Barry Bonds is for once the nicest story in baseball. Even while having to maneuver around his enormous ego, no one denies his performances before and after his father’s death were heart-warming. Add to that the Giants’ domination of the weak NL West after getting their hearts broken in last year’s World Series, and Bonds becomes the feel good story of the year...