Word: macho
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Then there are the movies about the military--you know the ones, where the cruel, macho, murdering types are engaging in cover-ups and stuff, all so that they can preserve their old boys club, wrangle a few more missiles from Congress and blow some people to hell. Or maybe you missed "Snake Eyes," "A Few Good Men," "Courage Under Fire" and all the rest of them. No great loss. Even so, you've probably seen the movies about the Catholic Church, like "Godfather III" (the Vatican is in cahoots with the Mob) or "Primal Fear" (bishops are corrupt pedophiles...
...more disturbing, albeit most plausible, theory of what transpired involves a conspiracy. As a macho former movie star, Estrada was held in contempt by Manila's business aristocracy. Mrs. Aquino is from landed gentry. Cardinal Sin has an understandable aversion to a President who boasts of mistresses and illegitimate offspring. In the mid-'80s, the Elite and the Church banded together to help organize Manila's masses against Marcos, a moment of triumph they have never forgotten. The fact that a high percentage of Filipinos loved Estrada was exasperating. Even more inconvenient was his grip on the Senate, which seemed...
Calmly walking his audience through the intricacies of the case, Boies introduced Americans to a previously undiscovered species of superstar lawyer. He showed none of the self-regarding intellectual pretension of an Alan Dershowitz or the preening, macho strut of a Johnnie Cochran. Unlike his Democratic colleague Warren Christopher, he did not whine. Unlike his Republican opponent James Baker, he did not bully. Instead he explained--lucidly and persuasively...
...need to raise awareness about the risks that accompany sleep-starvation. At the same time we need to deflate the macho image that accompanies survival on micro amounts of sleep. We have to create a climate in which people who get enough sleep are considered the smart ones. We can start a campaign in the dorms and Houses advertising the combined benefits of adequate sleep, nutrition and exercise. We can make a concerted effort to reduce noise-levels after...
Even some of the guys are acting more like the gentler sex. Macho producer Jerry Bruckheimer is releasing Remember the Titans (Sept. 29), an integration drama with Denzel Washington set in 1971 against the backdrop of high school football. Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller do some bonding (and some hilarious head butting) in Meet the Parents (Oct. 6). And Jim Carrey's heart grows several sizes in Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Nov. 17). Must be those treatments from Nurse Betty...