Word: selfishnesses
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Snuggled into her cosiest leopard-skin dress, Gina Lollobrigida, 40, breezed into Manhattan to say a few good words for her 51st film, Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell. She also passed some opinions on her favorite topic. "In America, women are so important and so selfish. They become so powerful that they're the equals of men," she said. "In Europe, we act small and stupid. And that makes us appealing." To whom was she appealing at the moment? asked a reporter. "Very many men. I am very generous,"was the answer. "Today, sexy comes from the personality...
...financial resources to deal with myriad problems at home. Now it should be able and willing to solve them. Still, what may really hold America back is precisely what has pushed it forward: the American's prized and highly developed sense of individualism, which can amount to plain selfishness. This is a relative matter; many Europeans, with their deep class conflicts, tend to be far more selfish than people in the U.S. But Americans, particularly in times of rapid and threatening change, have turned protectively in upon themselves, their families, their jobs. That is an understandable but fallacious approach...
...audience that finally affords everyone connected with any film the huge pay-off that justifies the slow process of shooting and cutting a dramatic narrative. But the film-maker's decision to put his cast through hell, perversely moral though it may be in the abstract, is supremely selfish. This cannot be divorced from the making of a first film any more than frame composition or cutting...
Nevertheless, when he was assassinated last June in Los Angeles, Bobby Kennedy was the idol of the poor and the deprived, worshiped by blacks, Mexican-Americans and Indians. Cynics were never able to reconcile this devotion. They believed that Kennedy exploited the poor for selfish political purposes. In fact, R.F.K. did many things for political reasons, and his initial interest in the poor may have been in part politically motivated...
...Connor said that he himself first became interested in seeking sanctuary after attending B.U.'s Marsh Chapel last October during the vigil for AWOL Army private Ray Kroll. He had gone AWOL last spring for 50 days "purely for selfish reasons--just to get out of it myself...