Word: machismo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...malicious Divorce Italian Style (1962), he is a creature of tics and slouches, plotting his wife's death and stalking the seraphic Stefania Sandrelli with the gait of a mopey Groucho. He made informed fun not only of these familiar Italian comic figures but also of his own star machismo. At the end of a guest stint on Laugh-In, TV's vaudeville for the Nixon years, he stared moonily into the camera, then yanked off his toupee, revealing a few vagrant strands of hair. The ardor, the bedroom voice, the coiffure--it's all pretend, see? Acting...
...19th District is a mix of Old West machismo and Sun Belt sophistication--home to oil, Cowboy Mornings, agribusiness and Texas Tech. Like the district's economic prosperity, Combest's political success comes from expertise in old and new technologies: he was John Tower's agricultural-affairs specialist, is a member of the Agriculture Committee and chairman of the Select Intelligence Committee...
Swingers: that word is not so much dirty as stale. It evokes the musty air of Rat Pack swagger, when Frank and Dino passed for arbiters of hip machismo. Man, did the chicks dig it! Anyway, that's what the young L.A. layabouts in Swingers pretend to think, playing it oh so cool with the "babies" and thinking they're classy when ordering pricey Scotch--something with "Glen" in its name. They bop to the knowing bounce of Louis Jordan, Bobby Darin, Basie and Bennett and the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy band, and check out Sinatra Night at the Lava...
This is an unworthy fear. By this time we should have learned to trust the cockeyed integrity of Ron Shelton, who directed and co-wrote (with John Norville) the film. Surely the movies' reigning poet of knucklehead machismo, the man who gave us Bull Durham and Cobb, will find an entertaining and instructive way for Roy to immolate himself...
...ROCK (June 7). Connery, visible this time and wearing his full toupee, is a hermit con who helps hip-geeky Nicolas Cage storm Alcatraz to prevent some bad guys from doing really bad things. The trailer makes it look like another exercise in chatty machismo from the Simpson-Bruckheimer team (Crimson Tide...