Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both his life and his death, Bundy demonstrated the fragility of our society and our self-image. As Bundy told The New York Times in 1986, "if anyone considers me a monster that's just something they'll have to confront in themselves. For people to want to condemn someone, to dehumanize someone like me is a very popular and effective and understandable way of dealing with a fear and a threat that is incomprehensible...
...show prepares to celebrate its seventh anniversary, Letterman has established himself as the medium's most inventive * and influential comic. Like Saturday Night Live in the '70s, Late Night with David Letterman has defined the cutting edge of TV comedy in the '80s: hip, irreverent, self-parodying, both scornful of and fascinated by the cliches of show business. Sitting in his Rockefeller Center office recently after a late- afternoon taping of his show, Letterman talked about his career and his comedy with associate editor Richard Zoglin...
...Toole likes to say his life has been "either a wedding or a wake." The decades since Lawrence have given him opportunities for both: some scintillating screen achievements (Lord Jim, The Ruling Class, My Favorite Year) and the squiffy, self-parodying grandeur of so many talk-show turns and his West End Macbeth...
...watches, sagging loaves of flesh held up by crutches. Naturally all this was much more shocking 50 years ago than it is today: Dali was regularly denounced by Fascists and Stalinists alike as a decadent threat to youth. When he could no longer annoy either the bourgeoisie or the self- appointed guardians of the proletariat, he mortally offended the avant- garde by embracing Franco and the Pope, and was duly drummed out of the surrealist group...
...divorce, psychologist Judith Wallerstein has found that a disturbingly large number of youngsters are suffering the consequences many years after the family breakup. Says Wallerstein, director of the Center for the Family in Transition in Corte Madera, Calif.: "Almost half of children of divorces enter adulthood as worried, underachieving, self-deprecating and sometimes angry young men and women...