Word: self
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...course, party organizers will contend that this is merely a gentle self-mockery in which conservatives' own acknowledged sense of risk is exposed as paranoia. Clearly conservatives want to have it both ways (an aspiration with which many of us can identify). They would simultaneously suggest that the rhetoric of "coming out" is appropriate because being conservative puts one at risk, even as they dismiss this risk as purely fanciful (and therefore a source of humor...
Gates presents himself as a lovable, nerdy, self-made billionaire, but consider the facts. Having bludgeoned the companies that threatened him, Gates now poses as a man whose only joy is promoting innovation and competition. If his practices aren't monopolistic, then John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould were just misunderstood capitalists. JACK MORROW Long Beach, Calif...
...Mark Katz's commentary "Power Children" [ESSAY, Nov. 15], he criticized the teen worshipping of recent years. I am a part of the generation that has grown up with countless television shows and self-help books on how to be a teenager. You need not worry that teen worship will turn us from the golden calf into a tarnished cow. Even though we have got more attention, we are still the same people. The extra focus on teens and children in today's society is not necessarily a bad thing. LISA CHEN, AGE 17 New York City...
...Absolutely not. Knauss has appeared on only the following magazine covers: Ocean Drive, Country Living, Self, Hamptons and British GQ. She's also done a watch-company ad and a Panasonic commercial, and some inside shots for Allure. That's it. Technically, "supermodel" applies only to the six who gained unprecedented success in the late '80s and early '90s: Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer and Kate Moss. None of whom the Donald is currently dating...
DIED. QUENTIN CRISP, 90, witty, flamboyantly effeminate author of The Naked Civil Servant; in Manchester, England. In his autobiography, famous for its lack of self-pity, the self-described "mother superior of homosexuality" chronicled youthful torment at the hands of homophobes (see Eulogy...