Word: narcissistic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...