Word: machoness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vinegars -- herbed, balsamic, homemade, you name it -- took on added cachet as American chefs continued their ceaseless quest for less fattening flavor - agents. The shelves of specialty stores groaned with an ever increasing array of novelty mustards, oils and sauces, including a typically macho salsa concocted by that iron-mouthed amateur, actor Paul Newman...
...Stone's old enemies, JFK may be another volatile brew of megalomania and macho sentiment. To his new critics, the film may seem deliriously irresponsible, madly muttering like a street raver. But to readers of myriad espionage novels and political-science fictions, in which the CIA or some other gentlemen's cabal is always the villain, the movie's thesis will be a familiar web spinning of high-level malevolence. JFK is Ludlum or Le Carre, but for real...
...reelection campaign, President Bush has a serious image problem. This time it's not the "wimp factor" or a lack of a "vision thing" that threaten his candidacy--those notions were dispelled nicely by last winter's macho war in the Persian Gulf...
These are bold paintings, but not in a macho way. They accept hesitation as part of the normal apparatus of consciousness. You don't get the image all at once, and the size of the canvases is meant not so much to impress you in the familiar, take-it-or-leave-it American fashion as to draw you slowly into the web. This, too, is part of Pollock's often misunderstood legacy. Looking at the "Cold Mountain" paintings one inevitably thinks of nature: thin they are, and austere, but also full of light and space. They suggest mountain landscapes, rocks...
...amber-skinned transvestite named Manny the Fanny gyrates to a dance-club hit while recalling her Krazy Glue revenge on an unfaithful boyfriend. A punchy Peruvian ex-boxer, pressed to name a famous Hispanic, searches the blank canvas of his mind. "William Shakesperez," he intones. "He wrote Macho Do About Nothing and The Merchant of Venezuela...