Word: machismo
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...opposition is just one person: the Erin Brockovich of decommed soldiers, a Rambo with a higher IQ - Bob Lee Swagger! With a surname redolent of American machismo, and Christian names that suggest both Good Ol' Boy and President Assassination Suspect, Swagger is your standard-issue outlaw hero. He loves his pet pooch, has little use for humans. On being offered the assignment to prevent an assassination, he spits out his apolitical nihilism: "I don't much like this President. Didn't like the last one much either." (As a non-voter for either Bush or Clinton, he's in sync...
...horror to be so white-hot they will cauterize and heal the wounds of war, and singe everyone's soul in the process. Well, not quite, but Platoon is still the most impressive movie to deal with the fighting in Viet Nam. Apocalypse Now was, by comparison, all machismo and mysticism; Stone's film is a document written in blood that after almost 20 years, refuses...
...event, co-sponsored by the Latino Men’s Collective and Latinas Unidas, explored ideas of machismo and feminismo and their powerful connotations in Latino society...
...stopped calling myself a feminist in college,” Glenda M. Aldana ’07 told students gathered last night at a Winthrop House discussion on “machismo y feminismo,” sponsored by campus Latino groups...
...contrast, machismo, which means masculinity, is a much more universal term and a standard to which many men in Latin America are held...