Word: narcissist
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...play. Evy's two closest friends want to be loyal watchdogs, but their own shaky personalities make them abettors of despair. One is a middle-aged homosexual actor (Michael Lombard) who knows he will never make the grade in the theater. The other is a self-pampering narcissist (Betsy von Furstenberg), whose mentality is simply a cosmetic extension of her face. With inexplicable love and concern, Evy's teen-age daughter (Ayn Ruymen) by a husband long since divorced from Evy, filters a ray of redemptive hope for her mother through the final curtain...
Danius Turek plays a second masterful creation, Archibald Grosvenor, taciturn lyric poet, indomitable narcissist: in short dear chorines, the single apple of your collective eye. Men do not care for him. Turek is limited by an approximately normal skeletal structure, forcing him to exploit the variety of stuffed poses of which he is capable. He charts the attitude of pomposity with a mathematical vigor, with glorious shamelessness impossible since Freud's tinkerings...
...actors, unlike decent people, have the morals of hamsters. Cynics feel that actors-like hamsters-have the same unsteady morals as decent people, differ merely in having too much time, money and inclination. Psychologists set forth that anyone who becomes an actor in the first place must be a narcissist, yearning for ever-new romantic mirrors to provide adoration. Whatever the truth, from Hollywood last week the sound of distant sundering was louder than usual...
...dapper Spanish painter Salvador ("soft watches") Dali has published his autobiography.* It is a wild jungle of fantasy, posturing, belly laughs, narcissist and sadist confessions. It is stuffed with Dali's paranoiac paintings, sketches and constructions (see cut), is one of the most irresistible books of the year. Dali, whatever else he is, is a character. He stands, among other things, against Buddha and Spinach, for Maturity and Snails...
...autobiography he published two years ago under the title The Life Story of "N. R." or 40 Years of Rambling, Gambling and Publishing, Rumbling, Grumbling and Four-Flushing. Crudely written, paperbound, it read like a dime novel, sold for $1, proved the author to be a sentimental narcissist. Born in Nebraska of "tithing Baptists, Irish fighters and Yankee ne'er-do-wells," young Rounsevell was raised in upState New York, learned to chew tobacco before he was 12. took to sin early. (The skids to Hell were well greased and I slid down the incline as fast...