Word: macho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...content from the image of the vagina. What makes Chicago's work unusual in this context is not the quality of her vision but the simplicity of her fixation. Perhaps one should imagine the case with the sexes reversed: a male artist decides to do a homage to macho history, from God the Father to Mahatma Gandhi and Frank Sinatra-all represented by china penises, propped up by quantities of Laurentian burblings about roots, darkness and the archetypal perceptions of the blood. Who, today, would take such an effusion seriously, and what museum would bother with it? To represent...
Ever since John Travolta mounted a mechanical toro at Gilley's Club in Pasadena, Texas, suburban cowboys everywhere have been taking the bull by the horns. "It's a macho thing," says Jerry Willrich, manager of Gilley's Bronco Shop, which sells the El Toro machine to bars around the country for big bucks ($7,495). "A guy has to beat that machine and show off for his women." Manhood, however, has been riding for more than a few falls...
...pushed into the role of being "macho" when society encourages women not only to abandon their independence but to seek security from men. Man must be stable, independent, and above all, strong-physically and mentally. The media exploits and reinforces that image--in cigarette and designer jean advertisements, TV soap operas, and James Bond movies...
...Jesse Jackson, black activist: "Mr. Reagan's approach to foreign policy is that of a macho man. And John Anderson is a vacuum cleaner to suck up the frustrated, the purist and the self-righteous...
This is indeed the Army of the eighties, though, with the stereotypical personalities of all the old service comedies transplanted into new bodies. The ferocious drill sergeant is Black; the macho commanding officer and the hard-bitten, street-smart ex-con are female. And as well as turning boys into men, the New Army turns girls into women. We know Private Benjamin has become a real woman because she has her first orgasm ("Now I know what it is I've been faking all these years!") with a French gynecologist she picks up while on leave...