Word: machoness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When I got there, it was a big male macho place. I tried to make The Crimson more comfortable and inclusive," says Dorman, who, in 1987, became the first female president in eight years...
Catholics in the province had been bracing for attacks ever since the Dec. 27 murder of Billy Wright, leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (L.V.F.), a fringe paramilitary group that is staunchly opposed to the interparty peace talks under way in Belfast. Wright, a hotheaded, macho killer, was gunned down in a daring execution-style murder inside the Maze prison by members of the Irish National Liberation Army, a violent Catholic splinter organization that is also strongly opposed to the talks, and has never agreed to join the cease-fire agreed to by the I.R.A...
Mamet's clipped, macho, Ping-Pong dialogue still has a good deal of satiric punch. ("How's Laurie?" "Fine." "Yeah, but how is she, though?") Scott Zigler has directed with haunting spareness. And the acting is top-notch, particularly Patti LuPone, feisty and funny as Jolly. But raiding the memory bank has made Mamet lazy. His plays have never been much concerned with plot, but The Old Neighborhood has no forward propulsion at all. Bobby spends most of the time staring off into the distance, head cocked slightly, as if groping for memories, meaning, connection. So are we. Because...
Clooney always plays the same character, whether in his movies or in the weekly episodes of "ER." He is a macho guy, attractive, self-confident, somewhat crude, gruff on the outside, moderately warm inside. And, according to Richmond, Clooney can get away with the monotony because "there is something reassuring about George's unspectacular but classic character in an age when the screen is increasingly peopled by young guys...who haven't lived--not really lived--more than a day and a half their whole lives and are therefore about as inherently interesting as garden slugs." Which means, to take...
...picked physics because I thought it was the most intellectually macho subject," she says...