Word: macho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shows have proved so much. From the start, Hill Street's gritty, teeming visual style (created in part by shooting with hand-held cameras) set ) it apart from anything else on TV. Its cops were not macho superheroes but flawed men and women with interesting lives both on and off the beat. The show's dramatic structure (copied by such successors as St. Elsewhere and L.A. Law) was unusually complex, interweaving a dozen or so major characters and several ongoing plots each week. If the comic interludes were often heavy- handed and the drama sometimes soapy, Hill Street nevertheless defined...
...thus essentially undramatic. At the end of The Last Picture Show, Duane, who had joined the service and was headed for Korea, left his secondhand Mercury with his friend Sonny, saying, "See you in a year or two, if I don't get shot." It was a good, macho exit line. At the end of Texasville, he doesn't go anywhere, and doesn't even go crazy, though bankruptcy court still looms. No exit line; no exit...
...book a disgruntled G.I. in Europe provokes the crisis by stealing a backpack-size nuclear bomb and threatening to detonate it unless the President withdraws nuclear forces from Europe. When the Kremlin hears about this, it activates its own crisis machinery, and the two sides inexorably proceed toward a macho nuclear confrontation. The chief of the Strategic Air Command warns that the C 3 system can absorb only a couple of hundred "hits" and still function. The National Security Adviser, who wants to prepare American missiles for launch even without the President's approval, argues, "If the Soviets strike first...
...movie's few flirtations with the Halloween genre are handled economically and gracefully--the psychiatrist/investigator, the macho-hero-in-pursuit, the hardboiled reporter, and the renegade cop all have their moment as they rotate around the central character. There's even a brief humorous romance for Daughter Number Two, and Shelley Hack, ex-Charlie's Angel, makes a successful shift from feathered hair and bellbottoms to mid-urban motherhood...
...Viet Nam, about a vet wandering the New York streets; in another, Michael and Marie, Oliver's father played the victim. "Oliver was alienated, sarcastic and brooding," says his film-school friend Stanley Weiser, who is collaborating with Stone on a script about Wall Street crime. "A real macho man who carried the torture of Viet Nam with him but never talked about...