Word: macho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gershengorn cites a real change in the court system since her first days as a public defender. At that time, she says, there was a strong prevailing macho ethic. "We fight tough, we drink tough, we are tough," is how she describes the credo of the male lawyers and judges who once dominated courthouses across the state...
...very macho kind of ethic was simply modified in an evolutionary rather than revolutionary way," he says. "We're representing people who everyone else calls `less than worthless.' We few, we happy few, we hang together...
...once lived for "the movement" and each other, and now find only regret in recalling either ardor. The father (Jeffrey DeMunn) is genial enough -- a mildly successful photographer who deflects his son's attempts to romanticize him -- although his affability fades into meanspirited vehemence at the least challenge to macho authority. The exceptional person in this triangle, and the reason Weller's play can arouse memories just as vivid for onlookers as for him, is the mother Elise, played by Kate Nelligan...
...young, inexperienced officers. For the cops, pursuits can spark up long hours of dull patrol duty. In addition, "there is a John Wayne syndrome," notes Hubert Williams, president of the Police Foundation in Washington; police work attracts some aggressive "risk takers" who are apt to get caught up in macho antics...
...Supreme Court hears the case of a "macho" woman accountant. Was she denied promotion because of sexual stereotypes obliging women to be sweeter? -- High- speed police chases -- critics call them a public peril...