Word: megalomaniacs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Said Austrian Minister of Education and Art Helmut Zilk, who oversees the opera company and had clashed repeatedly with Maazel during the conductor's 1½-year tenure: "I don't want to say anything bad about him, but he has no manners and is a megalomaniac." Observed Maazel: "Every three weeks we have another unprofessional statement from a minister who only goes to football games. I told him to take the bloody...
...title story, a megalomaniac writes a letter to a retired librarian, apologizing for an insult that the victim almost certainly does not remember. Small wonder. Some 35 years have passed since the young college teacher, raffishly sporting a baseball hat, walked by the library and encountered Miss Rose. She: "Oh, Dr. Shawmut, in that cap you look like an archaeologist." He: "And you look like something I just dug up." Herschel Shawmut has been reminded of his offense by a former friend, who has mailed him a blistering attack on what he was and what he has become: Shawmut...
...Dudley Moore's case, biology would seem to be approaching destiny. Staggering on the heels of Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year and The Stuntman, he plays the infinitely lovable, brutally sarcastic megalomaniac whose heart of gold is barely outlasting his liver. It's the Irish role, and we've seen it oh so many times before. Here, he portrays Jason Carmichael, "a witty, talented, acerbic, sarcastic, but always charming" and highly successful New York playwright. The day of his wedding to a glamorous socialite (Janet Eilber) also marks the beginning of a literary collaboration cum romantic entanglement with...
...inspires extremes of emotion. To his admirers, especially his troops, he is a brave and brilliant field commander who is not afraid to take risks, even at his peril. To his critics, among them many of his generals and Cabinet colleagues, he is an arrogant and dangerously ambitious megalomaniac with little or no respect for opposing points of view, much less democratic process. Said a senior Knesset member who attended meetings with Sharon last week: "If someone suggests another way of looking at things, he sweeps it away. He will say, 'You're not very patriotic...
...still in his early 20's, Citizen Kane both secured its maker a reputation as a film genius and made him an industry pariah for pursuing the taboo topic. In the title role, Welles is terrific and it is just impossible to reconcile the image of him as the megalomaniac Kane with that of the ursine talk-show regular and Californian wine salesman...