Word: megalomania
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...total turkey, I'll close it," he says. But for Coppola, who also owns a San Francisco theater, FM radio station and various other local enterprises and real estate, City is a reaffirmation of both his affection for San Francisco and his imaginative megalomania. "I don't know if all my ideas for City will work, but they're worth trying," he says. "In publishing, the margin of error is small, and people are frightened to try anything new, to tamper with the formula. But I find the frequency of a magazine exciting. With a movie...
...facade is everything. He was born a Russian Jew; his family fled from the pogroms, and his respectable father, a dentist, committed suicide when he learned of Stavisky's first arrest some years before the action of the film takes place. Despite his own doctor's diagnosis of megalomania and schizophrenia, Belmondo's Stavisky is relatively attractive, down to the last minutes when he is trapped like an animal in a Swiss chalet, with stubble growing on his chin like a cheap American gangster, a ruined man awaiting the machine guns of his enemies. Above all, Stavisky...
...other words, quipped Leonard, "If you want to spend your weekends writing a novel about corporate megalomania, CBS owns it." Confessed one flustered CBS executive: "It's legalistic and jargonistic. It'll be made more agreeable, but we have to protect trade secrets." Like lonely ideas, perhaps...
...takes issue with the wing of the movement that often equates male sexuality with rape -sometimes seeing rape symbolically as the distillation of the normal male sexual attitude. Says Adelson: "As any clinician knows, these days the problem in male sexuality lies in the opposite direction, not in phallic megalomania but rather in sexual diffidence and self-doubt...
...caught the real Beverly Sills [Nov. 22]. She can send sparks up your spine with that incredible voice. For those spectacular talents, most of us would accept an amalgam of megalomania, immorality, the frizzles and flat feet; but happily we don't have to. To experience a Sills performance is to revel in her joyous nature, her exuberance, her graciousness and that leavening of mischief. Sills is summer ir full bloom...