Word: machos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, Aliens' minor characters, although at first they seem like B-movie stereotypes, all develop individual personalities of their own, a rarity in a horror film. The group of Marines includes Vasquez, the Hispanic tough macho lesbian, who ends up sacrificing herself for the rest of the crew; Hodgson, a dumb, smartass soldier whose terrified vulnerability in the face of the aliens makes him human after all; and a mean drill sargeant with a dry wit who has one of the film's greatest lines. Cameron manages to work in just enough comic relief to keep the audience from breaking...
...important to detective fiction as it is to the real estate business. The glitz centers of the Sunbelt offer the irresistible drama of drug traffic played against a background of pastel, stucco and palm fronds. Joseph Hansen (Fadeout, A Smile in His Lifetime, Gravedigger) offers an alternative to the macho, down-at-the-heels stereotype. He is David Brandstetter, a Southern California insurance investigator who is affluent, well dressed and homosexual. This subgenre is bicoastal; see George Baxt's novels, beginning with A Queer Kind of Death. The protagonist is a gay New York City police detective named Pharaoh Love...
...actors and camera, the surprise of lighting, the big crazy fire at the climax. As a sympathetic director of women (who could ever forget Adrian's birth scene in Rocky II?) you might be appalled by Bertrand Blier's Tenue de Soiree, a raucous romantic farce in which Macho Thief Gerard Depardieu gets the raging hots for Winsome Wimp Michel Blanc, and they both end up in drag. Still, the film is so ingenuous and vigorous that even an ardent feminist like yourself might surrender to its skewed charm...
...bring up the death penalty, which he passionately opposes and has vetoed four times. In the middle of the speech, however, he put aside his notes, leaned across the lectern and said, "I know what people say. This mushy-headed liberal Cuomo, who read a book once. These macho guys who want to burn people, fry them." He drops his voice. "I know how you feel." He does. Cuomo's father-in-law was paralyzed by a mugger's attack. "Look, my mother wants revenge." Cuomo does not. He tells them that he is for life without parole...
Despite all these obstacles, democracy has maintained itself, however fitfully, in all sorts of cultures: in countries as poor and chaotic as India (though oddly enough not in Pakistan, which received the same political stamp from British rule); in a macho nation with deep economic disparities like Venezuela (while in the past eluding many countries in the same area); in a small, underdeveloped country like Botswana (while much of the region lives under one-party rule). But to assume that we can bring democracy to other lands by throwing a switch or withdrawing support from a dictator evokes the image...