Word: he-man
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...Belmondo's sexy grimaces and Jacqueline Bisset's--well, Jacqueline Bisset. But Brooks will joy-buzz you all night with this sort of thing (every week, in fact, for five or six years), while de Broca would rather tickle you, like a feather. So we soon discover that the he-man adventures of the hero, Bob St. Clair, all lie in the forlorn mind of a poor, put-upon writer who just scrapes by by churning out pot-boilers. The unhappy writer turns his chintzy publisher into an Albanian villain, and seduces the ice-cold grad student upstairs...
Point and developed a tough, he-man reputation, despite his love for classical music and gourmet cooking. His image as a crusty, limited man who loved destruction and hated to take prisoners led to some predictions that he would stumble after the war. But he served with distinction in the Pentagon, Europe and Korea, and displayed sensitivity and tact in 1962 and 1963 when President Kennedy called on him to command federal troops during tense racial confrontations at Oxford, Miss., and Tuscaloosa and Birmingham...
...most conspicuous eccentricity was a fondness for walking the streets in a toreador's black cape-that and a rapidly emerging, unorthodox approach to Bach. "The word toccata means to touch, "he asserts, lapsing into his habit of speaking in italics. "My Bach is a redblooded, gutsy he-man Bach. His mind is universal; his heart is overwhelming, and the spirit that rides over the entire creativity of this enormous man is transcendental...
Galy's transformation is thrust upon hits because the soldiers fear annihilation by their brutish sergeant, Bloody Five, whom pleasure is in others' punishment. Though his bluster and machismo parody his he-man style, Bloody Five is in truth as cruel as his nickname. His power overwhelms everyone but the camp follower, Widow Begbick. She knows the weakness intrinsic to all men especially strong ones, and eventually triggers Five's disgrace. Bloody Five's bravura balances Galy's passive foolishness. As surely as the latter metamorphoses into the army beast, the former weakens and falls. It's grim stuff...
...this and went blithely into the quagmire-"a war," writes Halberstam, "which no one wanted, but which the rhetoric seemed to necessitate." Not only the rhetoric of ritualistic anti-Communism but the rhetoric of machismo: the compensatory swagger of the liberal, the intellectual, to demonstrate he was a Realpolitik he-man by the American code. Here Halberstam simplifies in his zeal to give history a firm story line. He is more thoroughly convincing when he depicts what might be called the debacle of drift...