Word: machismo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Topics included "Selling Out", a discussion of whether or not Chicanos have an obligation to identify themselves as such; a student-led discussion on machismo and the distinctions between Chicanas and Chicanos; "Religion and Cultural Catholicism", a discussion of whether or not Catholicism affected the attitudes and dispostions of Chicano student groups; and "Politicalismo" which questioned the responsibilities of the Chicano elite...
...gags in Frank Oz's deft direction of Paul Rudnick's pointed script, the biggest one is that it's not just Howard who seems gay. So do the teachers, the town barber, Howard's stolid brother. And what exactly is the gay style in a time when bullying machismo rules on the street and on the screen? It is to be pleasant, considerate, gently witty--virtues once celebrated in American life and Hollywood comedies...
...signing the paycheck for the best salesman the cigarette industry has ever had? As anyone who has ever been a teenager knows, the Surgeon General's message on a pack of cigarettes is a challenge, not a disincentive. It gives the teenager an opportunity to display his machismo without having to consider the consequences until the dim and distant future. BEN HARNEY Spokane, Wash...
...celebrate the demise of the Marlboro Man. He's simply living abroad. I've just returned from Guatemala, where an artful TV ad begins with a nighttime storm, stampeding cattle, restless horses and men saddling up to enact a fantasy of real men's work. At the end, machismo served and calm restored, the handsome hero lights up...his Marlboro. Why am I not surprised? Developing nations have long served as dumping grounds for everything from banned pesticides to Dalkon Shields. We've got to invent mechanisms for ensuring that multinational corporations maintain the same environmental and social ethics abroad...
Male movie stars didn't always have to act like commandos to assert their machismo. How many bad guys did Clark Gable or Cary Grant kill in their careers as Hollywood heroes? Precious few, because life--even a villain's life--was held more precious then. Maybe the old movies were naive, but we'll take naivete over the thoughtless, numberless carnage that makes the modern action film a Bosnia for fun and profit...