Word: narcissist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like most baby boomers, a narcissist. In pursuit of the perfect body, we've tried spinning and step, aerobics and anaerobics, Pilates and Tae-Bo. But not even a hunky personal trainer and all those Kathy Smith exercise tapes can keep the lines, wrinkles and age spots away. No wonder plastic surgery is so big--with an estimated 4.9 million cosmetic procedures done last year, according to the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, up more than 800% since...
...possible explanations for Clinton's obtuseness, including the notion that he's some sort of addict, don't go over well at the construction site. A former Coast Guard sailor wonders if the President isn't a narcissist, prone to delusions of invulnerability. Someone else thinks he wanted to get caught--the revenge of his guilty Baptist conscience, perhaps. Maybe all the talk at church of a final heavenly judgment compelled him to want to speed up the process...
...attention, finally attracting his notice by a contrived and blatant flaunting of her sexuality. The implication, of course, is that Daisy serves as another girl for Ethan's score card. As a result, it becomes painful to observe the developing relationship. Indeed, Daisy's infatuation with such a narcissist has a downright misogynistic undertone...
...uncomfortable place: a safe, happy marriage to a man who probably won't leave. Like a girl in a beautiful dress that fits just too snugly, she must find a way out. The humiliation she suffers when she does so (in wrenching, honest scenes) ultimately transforms her from a narcissist into, finally, at 40, a grownup...
...reincarnation, not as one person this time, but as an entire decade--the '60s. This expansive metaphysics would have allowed him to show off all his facets: as holy man and party boy, as faith healer, sexual omnivore, purveyor of mystic salvations and bogus profundities, enemy of soap, hairy narcissist...