Word: macho
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...staff to be wearing combat boots and fatigues while sitting around their air-conditioned offices?" asked a Floridian. "Are they expecting to be rushed to the front?" An Arizonan noted, "The camouflage uniforms and combat boots 7,700 miles from the front lines smack of comic opera and macho imagery. Franks and his men appear ready to pick up arms and meet the enemy!" And a Kentucky reader gibed, "It looks almost as if they're 'playing war' in their parents' living room...
Bush's message left a chill of fear in many of us outside the U.S., mainly because of the President's macho pronouncements and the unprecedented support he is receiving from Americans. If his latest allegations of an "axis of evil" were not so serious, they would be laughable. Iran and Iraq are sworn enemies, and North Korea has very little to do with either of them. Bush's speechwriter obviously needs to brush up his understanding of geopolitics. IAN COLTERJOHN Agassiz...
...veteran action star was allowed to show his macho side in his next test—recreating the Die Hard scene in which his character, John McLean, walks on glass while dodging bullets...
...veteran action star was allowed to show his macho side in his next test—recreating the Die Hard scene in which his character, John McLean, walks on glass while dodging bullets...
...let’s call him Dusty) is wearing slightly different versions of the willowy rancher meets rugged mountain man outfit: a traditional wife-beater and stripped oxford (open, of course—wouldn’t want Dusty to overheat in the prairie sun), macho-man Texas-sized belt buckle and jeans. His seemingly unwashed, stringy, chin-length, dirty brown hair is either tucked innocently behind one ear or wisping across his rugged, bearded chin. Dusty is sensitive. He probably plays the banjo and knows how to speak Cherokee. He’s the kind of wilderness...