Word: macho
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...macho world of CB is part soap and part horse opera. Says Amitai Etzioni, the eminent Columbia University sociologist: "A CB allows you to present a false self: to be beautiful, masculine, tall, rich, without being any of those things. Like the traveling salesman who drops into a singles bar and says he's the president of his company, a person can project on the air waves anything he wants to be." The person who installs a CB set and adopts a "handle" (nickname) and starts "modulating" on the air, is creating a character and reaching out to others...
...macho posturing has faded, and the mythically evil images the Stones began projecting in the late 60s are, in these songs, nowhere to be found...
Adriesue ("Bitsy") Gomez, 33, is a "gear-jamming gal with white-line fever." A woman truck driver from Los Angeles, she is also a pain in the axle to a traditionally macho industry. Her fledgling 150-member Coalition of Women Truck Drivers, an offshoot of the L.A. chapter of the National Organization for Women, already has organization cells in Dallas, Atlanta and central California. Two weeks ago, Gomez won a $6,000 Fair Employment Practices Commission settlement from a California winery on the ground that she had been turned down for a trucking job simply because she was a woman...
...Survival of the Bark Canoe is the best book on bark canoes. It is part shop manual, part history, and part unforgettable-character sketch. The book also contains an account of a trip to the Maine woods that provides a dryly witty antidote to James Dickey's soggy macho saga Deliverance...
During the show Springsteen was in almost perpetual motion. He danced a lot, doing a kind of loose-legged boogy (he called it the "Jersey Hustle") that was half funky and half funny, a far cry from the macho movements of Elvis Presley or the pretentious saunterings of Mick Jagger. When he wasn't dancing, he ran or shuffled around the stage, twitched spastically (like a less ferocious version of Joe Cocker), and clowned around with the other members of the group, especially saxophonist Clarence Clemmons and guitarist "Miami Steve" Van Zandt. Dressed in matching broad-lapelled white suits, black...