Word: macho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Survival of the Bark Canoe is the best book on bark canoes. It is part shop manual, part history, and part unforgettable-character sketch. The book also contains an account of a trip to the Maine woods that provides a dryly witty antidote to James Dickey's soggy macho saga Deliverance...
During the show Springsteen was in almost perpetual motion. He danced a lot, doing a kind of loose-legged boogy (he called it the "Jersey Hustle") that was half funky and half funny, a far cry from the macho movements of Elvis Presley or the pretentious saunterings of Mick Jagger. When he wasn't dancing, he ran or shuffled around the stage, twitched spastically (like a less ferocious version of Joe Cocker), and clowned around with the other members of the group, especially saxophonist Clarence Clemmons and guitarist "Miami Steve" Van Zandt. Dressed in matching broad-lapelled white suits, black...
...found the scene almost comic. "We drove slowly past the Nasserite position at the Palm Beach Hotel and the idle warriors posing for macho pictures for photographers," he reported. "One of the leftists squatted with two AK-47 assault rifles at the ready, one in each hand...
...Macho Politics. Mo also rates a chapter in The Women of Watergate, but then so does every other female however remotely connected to the scandal. This paste-up of old clippings serves principally as a reminder that Watergate created not just victimized wives but several heroines: Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham, Prosecutor Jill Wine Volner, Representatives Barbara Jordan and Elizabeth Holtzman. Aside from that, the book sags with speculation ("Yet there is a great deal that [Pat Ellsberg] does not say, but it is impossible to believe she has not felt") and shameless padding ("Jill Volner certainly did not grow...
...prime source material in Sweet Movie. En route to her exalted madness, Miss World is showered with golden urine from her new husband's gilded member; raped by a muscleman; packed into a valise and shipped to Paris, where she is raped again, this time by one El Macho, and sent out with the garbage; relegated to some sort of free-floating madhouse whose inmates per form assorted atrocities with food; and, finally, made to roll naked in a vat of melted chocolate...