Word: machos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...parts were easy to write, they were not easy to play. Barry, 62, who had played macho characters like TV's Bat Masterson, was afraid of being too closely identified with a homosexual role. "People still call me Bat," he explains. "You really do become the part you play. In rehearsal, George and I didn't look at each other as a man or woman, but as someone we dearly loved. If I ever had a problem, I'd just think of my own wife." However he did it, Barry's portrayal of Georges is suave...
Fossey firmly establishes these animals in the world where they belong. She may give them cute names like Puck, Pantsy and Macho, but she maintains her scientific distance. There are enough kinship studies, spectographic charts and dung analyses to keep specialists happy. The general reader will be rewarded with adventure, in which virtually nothing has been distorted by preconception or self-absorption. Gorillas in the Mist is a work of direct and refreshing experience. If 1,000 Hamlets were chained to typewriters for eternity, they could not have written this book...
Eddie Murphy is the first of skitcom's major mimics to span the gap. On SNL he presents a roster of hilariously varied characters. One minute he is Little Richard Simmons, finding just the right comic fusion-effeminate yet macho-of the rock-'n'-roll screamer and the Liberace of aerobics ("Good golly, Miss Molly, you look like a hog!"). The next he is Velvet Jones, a pomaded pimp, with teeth like sheathed knives, huckstering his how-to books for young ladies, I Wanna Be a Ho and Exercises of Love. Now he is Tyrone Green...
...book is not a string of pronouncements: Barrett has a gift for getting people to talk. Even the President's taciturn brother Neil confessed to their lifelong competition in macho stoicism: "I don't give him credit for taking a deep breath, and he won't give me credit for taking a deep breath...
...novel about the apostate nephew of Constantino the Great. The second area that draws Vidal's scorn is American politics, which he dramatizes as a circus of opportunism and hypocrisy. See The Best Man; Washington, D.C.; Burr. The most freewheeling disdain is directed at popular culture, macho sexuality and social pretensions. See Myra Breckinridge; Myron...