Word: selfish
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...movies, these dog days are a time of atonement. Out go the slam-bang gonadal giants of June and July; in come a passel of fellows on their onerous journey toward becoming more sensitive souls. They take their cue from Harrison Ford, the selfish lawyer in Regarding Henry, who gets a shot in the head and suddenly feels so darned . . . human. But the newer films go a step farther. In Doc Hollywood and The Doctor, the ones in need of redemption are good guys...
Each approach, that of busybody or crybaby, is selfish, and each poisons the sense of common cause. The sheer stupidity of each seeps into public discourse and politics. Idiot in the original Greek meant someone who cared nothing for issues of public life. The pollster Peter Hart asked some young people in a focus group to name qualities that make America special. Silence. Then one young man said, "Cable TV." Asked how to encourage more young people to vote, a young woman replied, "Pay them...
...only thing that differs between other professions and politics is that there is the requirement for the politician not to be selfish. In the other professions, people act in their own interest, and if they go too far in their own interest, they will run afoul...
...world, those are fighting words. American Ballet Theater and San Francisco Ballet have recently restaged the work; Britain's Royal Ballet, the Soviet Kirov and Bolshoi companies have versions they consider historic. "Tchaikovsky's score markings are very close to what I want," notes Martins. "But people have been selfish through the years and accommodate themselves with slow tempi...
That was the whole point -- yuppies were always somebody else. Almost no one fit all the requirements of age (young), income (high), geography (urban), attitude (selfish) and affectations (Filofaxes and yellow power ties). Yet the fascination with charting the tastes of this subgroup was easily explainable. "Yuppies live in the fashionable neighborhoods of large urban areas," says Brad Edmondson, editor of American Demographics. "That's also precisely where editors and TV producers live...