Word: machos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COLONEL DEAN MACHO, veteran Marine flyer and crew-cut C.O. of Air Group 12 greeted the final day of the war with a farewell bombing sortie over the Mekong Delta. Whistling off into the hot pink dawn with three other A-4 Skyhawks, Macho made radio contact with a Vietnamese forward air controller (F.A.C.); he was promptly directed in pidgin English to an enemy target. Except for the language problem, it was business as usual. "At one point I asked the F.A.C. whether the target was east, west, north or south of some smoke rising from the ground," Macho recounted...
...Macho's two squadrons claimed the highest sortie rate of American airmen anywhere in Southeast Asia. Each of their 52 daily "hops" averaged more than an hour, and most pilots lived with an exhausting schedule-between 14 and 16 hours a day, seven days a week. Now, the mood at Bien Hoa resembled early New Year's Eve when everyone is waiting for the boring annual office party to begin. Long lines of Marines stood listlessly on the tarmac waiting to board C-130s for transfer home. Huddled in the shade by the sprawling base terminal building...
...flight line, ground personnel winched 500-lb, bombs onto the wing racks of Macho's 30-odd Skyhawks, guarded from rocket attacks by steel revetments that were decorated with gaudy graffiti. GOODBYE VIET ALLIES...
Cukor fabricates stock character types and conventional plot complications with playful expertise. Henry, the stodgy middle-class bourgeois, Augusta, the eccentric aunt, Visconti, her wildly romantic macho first love, and her present lover, Wordsworth, a fortune-telling black African, wind up on a mock spy adventure on the Orient Express as Augusta delivers an illegal $100,000 ransom to Visconti held captive in Africa. Fortified by the belief that love conquers all. Aunt Augusta cajoles, lies, steals, blackmails, and is deported in the course of her mission. Having sacrificed practically all she own when she finally does deliver the ransom...
...started with Peckinpah's Wild Bunch, and no discussion of cinematic fascism is complete without Straw Dogs. At the beginning of the year came the realization, by Pauline Kael and others, that the movies had begun to pipe fascism into the mind of Joe Moviegoer. That the primitive, unquestionably macho preachings of Peckinpah and Kubrick, as well as the less subtle portrayal of Dirty Harry Kellerman by Don Siegel, depicted a cultural regression...