Word: machos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were stumped," she says, adding "So I said, 'thinking of your next question?' And he laughed, I laughed and the audience laughed." Walters continues, "Then he walked over and gave me a kiss. After the show, people asked me whether I resented that, or if I thought it was macho or if I thought he would have done that to a man. Well, I hope he wouldn't have. I thought it was charming." Walters also believes Nesson's agility and skill are far better than those of many reporters...
Space should be devoted to silent sufferers subjected to yet another crime, called mental cruelty, a kind of spiritual torture. One hears about husbands who exercise their macho attitudes without physically abusing their wives but who create Kafkaesque nightmares in their everyday lives. Cruelty between two partners is often too subtle to be snared in the nets of social and judicial justice...
...faces are different, though not very: the macho Texan on CBS, the winsome South Dakotan on NBC and the urbane Canadian on ABC are all white, lean and youthfully middleaged; all part their dark, wavy hair on the left. They do vary somewhat in manner: Dan Rather of CBS is intense, Tom Brokaw of NBC is quick to laugh or lament, and Peter Jennings of ABC is elegantly detached. The newscasts that they anchored last week, in heavily promoted head-to-head competition, were almost exactly alike, not only in content but in specific imagery...
...perhaps the most flagrant case" of polk confusing the public and inhibiting proper presidential action: "If the Administration believes it is crucial that Central America not go Castroite, it should say so emphatically, argue the case clearly, and then do what has to be done swiftly and successfully." Such macho rhetoric often goes flabbily vague at the critical moment: Does "what has to be done" mean overthrowing Castro? Kristol does...
...peddles overpriced sneakers to the jogging, today person. His wife Sarah (Glenn Close) is a physician who, five years ago, threw off the "disgusting curse of being a good girl" and had an affair with Alex. Sam (Tom Berenger), once a Movement rhetorician, went to Hollywood and became the macho private eye in a hit TV series, which one of his pals describes as "a sitcom with a machete." Karen (JoBeth Williams), who used to be a closet poet, is now the restless wife of an ad executive. Michael (Jeff Goldblum) made Alex famous by writing about...