Word: megalomaniac
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...neutral. Silicon Valley is full of hypocrites who talk about the free market but come running to the government to hobble a competitor. Silicon Valley also is full of characters--such as Larry Ellison of Oracle and Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems--who do fit the stereotype of obnoxious megalomaniac so often and unfairly applied to Bill Gates. Or, again, so it seems to many in Redmond...
...claimed the year of 1999 as his own. In fact, there is little Joy Fantastic in this album. and the Artist certainly makes no effort to party like it's...oh, you know. The Artist's songwriting talent shines in the track "The Greatest Romance Ever Sold," but his megalomaniac performance as a sort of hybrid producer/composer/musician seems to have depleted the Prince's talents...
...yurts were devotees of his Republican revolution. At the center of the cosmological charts he doodled was, no surprise, himself. In his books he was a major historical figure, a planetary visionary, often misunderstood. In former Congresswoman Susan Molinari's book he came off as a blubbering though entertaining megalomaniac. At one point, she recalls, he revealed how heavily he bore his mantle: "I get up every morning and say to myself, 'This is the day I shall...
...ordered me out of his trailer. I said, 'You're a guest in this trailer. We're paying for it.'" Schumacher claims Kilmer didn't speak to him for two weeks. "It was bliss," says the director. "I didn't have to listen to the outpourings of a damaged megalomaniac...
...more accessible by both car and subway than the new stadium would be, never mind that the neighborhood is actually quite safe on game days, never mind that 2 million fans a year can still imagine Mickey Mantle gliding across the outfield. The wish list of one megalomaniac seems to take precedence over the welfare of millions. Instead of giving the billion to George, why not sprinkle some of it over the school system and some of it over the Bronx, and renew New York City? As it is, Yankee Stadium is one of the few places in the city...