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Says Lance Corporal Deborah Genest, a bulldozer driver at the Marines' Camp Pendleton: "It's a macho thing. There's a lot of resistance to us, but we can do more than some of the puny guys." Retired Major General John Singlaub, former chief of staff of the Eighth Army in South Korea, argues, however, that "it's a silly idea to put women in combat. To say that they are physiologically equal to men is to defy reality...
WATCHING GOIN' SOUTH makes you think Burt Reynolds must have had something to do with it. The cutting one-liners are tossed off with a certain macho flair, the male lead is yet another in a series of adorable scoundrel types, and the woman is one more unfulfilled, sublimated prude who all too willingly gives herself up to the irresistible charms of a confirmed ne'er-do-well. The film, in fact, aspires to little more than giving the audience a good belly laugh every 15 minutes or so. Your funny bone is taken good care of, all right...
...institutional depth to deal with the more complicated structural issues, the inbred capitalist priority system? Check out your own neighborhood to see how far we still have to go on race relations. Tremble a little in the night over visions of the fleets of C-147 transports--in the macho twinkling of a President's eye we could be marching the streets of Beirut, or Johannesburg...
...guys were so well nurtured on T V that they idolized, and even impersonated, many of the celluloid heroes. Starsky and Hutch and, of course. Clint Eastwood seem to be quite popular with the class of '82. But don't jump to conclusions. Not all the freshmen emulate these macho studs. No, it's a well diversified and varied class. Many of them emulate comedians. In one hour I met six "wild and crazy guys" doing Steve Martin imitations, and another guy who introduced himself as "Hawkeye," a M*A*S*H* fiend, no doubt. I guess the most pitiful...
...Burt Reynolds Macho Club Sandwich...