Word: macho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fawcett-Majors, she was on TV selling shaving cream. If that's what it took to arouse my passions, long-ago I would have leaped over the counter and into the arms of Mr. Solomon, my druggist.") Later, however, he defends Mayor Byrne from her critics among Chicago's "macho" firemen...
...assertion that his Democratic opponents had said that American Marines killed by terrorists in Beirut had "died in shame." He was overheard claiming that he had "tried to kick a little ass" in the debate, then made light of the gaffe, apparently in the belief that it would add macho to his preppie image. All this led Columnist Joseph Kraft, who has admired Bush, to write, "Unless the real George stands up, the general impression will be of a foolish fellow unfit to be President...
Reagan's stand-tall image also held appeal. When Geraldine Ferraro asked workers in a Belvidere, Ill., Chrysler plant why they planned to vote for Reagan, they said they feared Mondale would reinstate the anemic foreign policy of the Carter Administration. Says Fraser: "The macho factor was important...
...nature of support for the President among voters aged 18-24 is a result of the fact that our generation is the first to live and die by the media eye. We are the first generation raised entirely in a culture that reacts more strongly to "wimp," "loser," and "macho" than to substantive policy discussions, that bases its decisions and learns the news in media bites rather than in in-depth studies, and that is more concerned with style and image than any generation before...
...ANSWER the question campus Republicans appear unable to answer for themselves, young people support Reagan for a variety of emotional and non-intellectual reasons. Among them: feeling secure with a macho president; knowing their expected affluence will not be touched by a laisse-faire president; having a leader who does not demand more from them than that they prosper, multiply, and maybe pray...