Word: machismo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Quinn imbues his character with a gruff machismo. Zampano is a bold ladies' man, stupid and violent. He would frighten the people around him more if he didn't seem so ill-fated. Rarely is he effective in venting his desires or angers. This doesn't stop him from posturing as a refined man in hand medown-suits. Nor does it stop him from bullying everybody but paying customers. In fact, his apparent awareness of his own crudeness only increases his need to and pleasure in commanding Gelsomina, beating her and boasting about "how he taught her everything she knows...
...Princeton sophomore who frequents TigerInn and other eating clubs said a masculineatmosphere and an element of "machismo" stillprevail at club events...
...Beef tips are also dangerous, chock full of cholesterol and fat. The Marlboro Man undoubtedly eats beef tips and they're not doing his already-diseased organs any good. But that's irrelevant. Beef tips are for those who look cholesterol in the face and scoff. But machismo does not make a complete Harvard meal, at least for those living outside of Kirkland House...
...performers, especially Walken, Oldman and Saul Rubinek as the producer, do everything in big-mo. In its acting as well as its writing and direction, this is a live-action cartoon, a fantasy (and a sidewise critique) of machismo. It's a crimson fresco of smart people playing evil ones. The whole enterprise is noisy as hell, but you know it's there...
...them all the scarier. The group leader recalls falling into the men's movement as a scam after a sexual-harassment case ended his college teaching career. Wendt depicts, with Normesque what-the-hey gestures and overstuffed teddy-bear charm, how he plunged far beyond his means to display machismo to fellow traders in the pit. These men clearly ought to be in search of something. But they can't see the forest or the trees...