Word: macho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike Angleton, Harvey was almost too accessible. Known as the "Pear" be cause of his shape, Harvey was, says Mar tin, "the secret war made flesh." The bluff, boisterous Harvey began his career at the FBI, where his macho style offended J. Edgar Hoover. Transferring to the CIA, he took with him an encyclopedic knowledge of Soviet agents operating in the U.S. Harvey, contemptuous of striped-pants types, was the first, declares Martin, to identify Philby as a Soviet spy. The fact that Phil by traveled in the best circles did not mislead Harvey as it did others...
...sexist male nor am I into macho chic, neither do I harass women because they are weak or merely available. As I am not an extreme or extraordinary person, I cannot help but believe that there are more like me who are guilty only because we are males. As a member of the Harvard community, I apologize for the behavior of our police toward you, Ms. Sharp, but I cannot apologize for the fact that men, and these detectives in particular, did not act as you would have, so it seems, a "well-trained" male act. Just as you would...
...woman plays a James Bond-like character, while her cowardly male partner wants to stay home and play chess. To match the soft-core female pornography of Charlie's Angels, ABC is also looking at a spin-off called Charlie's Devils, with three macho males chasing the baddies. Dancer Fitzgerald does not say what those sexy devils will be wearing, but it probably will be as little as possible. In CBS's Kops, California marshals patrol the coast in shorts and T shirts. Moral: What's saucy for the gander is gravy for the goose...
...Manhattan they go by names like the Eagle's Nest, the Spike, the Mine Shaft and the Anvil. In San Francisco they are called the Brig and the Ambush. They are all homosexual "leather" bars that cater to macho style and sadomasochistic taste. Along with some bathhouses, sex-gadget shops, magazines and private clubs, they make an increasingly visible subculture in the gay world. That leather fringe is now also visible on movie screens, as the backdrop for a film that has been denounced and picketed by homosexuals: William Friedkin's Cruising, the story of a gay murderer...
...ever since the elite 40-member Académie Française was established by Cardinal Richelieu in 1634 to uphold France's literary standards, it has barred its doors to women. But now the "Immortals" have voted to breach France's macho line by admitting Novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, 76, author of Hadrian's Memoirs and acclaimed translator of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Though Yourcenar holds U.S. as well as French citizenships and has lived in Maine for 30 years, what bothered the twelve who opposed her was principally her gender. Philosopher Jean Guitton, 78, grumbled...