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Psychologists from South Africa to Chicago have begun to recognize that extreme self-centeredness is the forest in these stories, and all the other things-- guns, games, lyrics, pornography--are just trees. To list the traits of the narcissist is enough to prove the point: grandiosity, numbness to the needs and pain of others, emotional isolation, resentment and envy...
...thought you were a narcissist. From now through Nov. 22, catch actor Marty Maguire in “A Night in November,” a show in which he plays all 26 roles. According to the play venue’s Web site, the show centers on a Belfast Protestant—and 25 other people, including myriad soccer fans, pub crawlers, fathers-in-law, and jetsetters...
...life," says investigator Sam Brower, who has been working on polygamy civil cases for the past three years. Jeffs was known to be the primary gatekeeper for access to the prophet, his father, when he was alive but ailing in health. "I'm convinced he's also a sociopathic narcissist who is extremely cunning," says Brower. It is estimated, that Jeffs now has 80 wives, some 250 children and millions of dollars at his disposal...
...California and three in his name. It still boggles her that a celebrity can trade an actor's fame for a politician's popularity and have it be accepted as legal tender, one for one. Schwarzenegger's sheer blankness interests Wilentz too. "He's a pure narcissist," she writes. "Contentless, and in this way highly appropriate to his times...
...seen as works of a "garden-variety egotist." Both books have their share of self-indulgence and preening; neither approaches the level of masterpieces like Lolita and Pale Fire, the last word on the mad pursuit of biographical reality. But viewed against the body of Nabokov's fiction, the narcissist label seems inadequate, a bit trendy and more than a little disingenuous. Field made his name studying the work and the man. Better than most outsiders, he knows the sources of Nabokov's genius, his gifts for showmanship and parody, his eccentricities and vanities. To discover at this late date...