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Other chapters show Catherine joined by her friends Nick, the defensively macho user/dealer, and Alex, the cute junkie rent boy, as they shoot up, go to clubs and wrestle with the complications of a world where truth blends with fiction and fantasy with reality. At one point Alex flirts with a boy who turns out to be a girl but who says she isn't. Who knows the truth? But in the end, suggest the book, does it matter? Even the illustrations by Ted Naifeh, using an unusual palette of black, gray and bronze, strike a harmonic discord between...
...Olympics have always been about something bigger than who can run the fastest or shoot the straightest. The athletes?the macho brawn of an Australian swimmer, the hard-won flawlessness of a Romanian gymnast?tell you something about the places they are from. Perhaps then India's oversized and underfunded squad serves a purpose in these humorless days of professional sports and all the science, diets and doping the era brings. It reminds us that at least one nation remembers the spirit in which the modern Olympics were founded?as a contest among amateurs. And that taking part, however haplessly...
...Once it became clear that Miller's well-crafted messages were having an impact, Budweiser responded with a negative counterattack, challenging both Miller's heritage, by making an issue of its foreign ownership, and its manliness, by dismissing Miller Lite as the "queen of carbs." "That's a very macho accusation against a brand that has been giving them a royal shellacking," said Adami, a hard-swearing chain smoker, in a recent speech...
There is a locker-room camaraderie at the academy, but the atmosphere is never really relaxed. The staff plays to the peer pressure that already exists in this group of macho, Type A personalities. "If you're lying in your own blood at 30,000 feet, it's your own fault," warned a physical-training instructor, letting the words linger for a few seconds. "If you can't stay in the fight, thousands will...
Despite T.R.'s macho image, here he looks "scared to death and not sure it's going to come out all right," says Clinton, who felt reassured by the portrait during tough times...