Word: macho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...practical joker, outrageous egomaniac, and father of a large family which he likes to run like a boot camp. Ben, his oldest boy, is a gentle soul who's beginning to chafe under the discipline, to say nothing of his father's determination to mold him in his own macho image...
...want to jam you right into the middle of it," says Scott. "Whether you are normally cautious on the road or a hotshot, it upsets nearly everyone. Especially the macho types. It's a heavy landing for them to find out they really can't drive and are nowhere near the limits of the car." For reassurance, the student looks at the special brake pedal installed on the passenger side of Scott's Malibu for the instructor to use if a student panics and freezes...
...financial boost comes not a moment too soon. The company's macho-looking line of four-wheel-drive Jeeps, which convey a sort of L.L. Bean sexiness to suburbanites, helped lift AMC's profits to a record $84 million last year. But sales of the fuel-thirsty vehicles have fallen 41% this year. During the first nine months of the current fiscal year, AMC lost $74.4 million...
Calling Black Macho "a feminist interpretation of our oppression as Black people," Wallace says it is possible "to look at everything in the world from the point of view of feminism. Sexism had as much to do with how we were cruelly mistreated as racism...
...Black Table's symposium on Black male-female interactions held last year, and the Association of Black Radcliffe Women's plans for a similar forum this year. But the ultimate solution Michele Wallace would suggest to Black women at Harvard and everywhere is the same as the reason Black Macho was written--"Because my personal answer for Black women is to become feminist...