Word: machoness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most talented painters among them were Henri, Bellows and Sloan. Glackens turned into a late-blooming Impressionist, and Shinn was essentially an illustrator, while Luks' coarse, rhetorical talent produced a lot of formulaically macho painting leavened only by a few significant works, such as The Wrestlers...
...decided to make would-be statutory rapists think twice. Last summer he allocated $2.4 million to a pilot program for 16 counties to begin prosecuting men who engage in sex with underage girls, and this month Wilson pledged $6 million more for a statewide crackdown. "It's not macho to get a teenager pregnant," Wilson announced. "But if you lack the decency to understand that yourself, we'll give you a year to think about it in county jail...
...Riesman, who warned that a young woman's "aspirations" to marry are "still in the South very common," and that men still divide women into the "good girls and the bad girls"--and you know which kind would want to attend a single-sex school. Besides, noted Riesman, even "macho" women...
Also fascinating is Morrisroe's account of Mapplethorpe's early incarnation as a macho frat boy, with his membership in the Perishing Rifles, Pratt's elite military organization, the description of whose hazing practices brings to mind nothing so much as the gay sadomasochistic rituals that came to fascinate the artist later in life. "In this case the "masters"...bound the pledges penises with one end of a rope, then attached bricks to the other end and ordered them to hurl the brick across the room...
...this were a movie, the background score would start its subliminal scream at about this point. But Moore's novel is both more complicated than the standard Hollywood thriller and more disturbing. Frannie is alarmed by Malloy's attention but much more strongly attracted to his macho presence. When he takes her to a bar for more questions about the murder, it dawns on her that she is trying to make herself attractive to him: "I was a little worried when I realized that it was more than wanting him to like me. I realized that I wanted...