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Word: machos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made my conversation seem sparkling, music sound better, made me feel good," he recalls. It seemed a fountain of youth. He could beat his 19-year-old son in a three-mile run, and his sex life sizzled. "I could be the macho man I always dreamed about." Soon he was spending $1,000 a week, snorting two grams a day with only minutes between "toots." "Even when you drive, you can pour a little sniff on your hand," he says. After a year of cocaine use, Trop discovered freebasing, and the social highs turned insidiously antisocial. "In the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Cocaine's Grip: I Thought I Was God | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

Slab Boys is drawing an uncustomary Broadway audience, many in leather jackets and punk haircuts, perhaps because the cast features leading exponents of baby-faced macho: Kevin Bacon (Fenwick in the movie Diner), Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Jackie Earle Haley (Breaking Away) and Val Kilmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hopeless Nights, Dreamless Days | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...evidently enjoyed It Happened One Night, but director Hutton is not Frank Capra any more than Selleck and Armstrong are Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert 'Tom "Magnum P.I." Sellect, sex symbol for the '80s, performs convincingly as O'Malley. conveying more emotion than one might think possible with his macho, mustachioed, chiselled face. Armstrong does not fare quite so well, occasionally dredging up memories of high-school drama productions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Well-Worn Road | 3/22/1983 | See Source »

...year round. After World War II the convertible again began to rise in favor. By the mid-1960s, half a million convertibles were selling yearly, accounting for 7% of car sales. All the major automakers had versions, including Chevy's Corvette and Ford's Thunderbird. Automen, ever macho, called convertibles the "mistress every man wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deciding to Go Topless | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...Fontessa and Friends" opened the show with music by the Modern Jazz Quartet. Scott Joplin, Khachaturian, James P. Johnson and Linda Clifford. This lively spoof on ballet and love affairs has a definite plot Fontessa (April Brown) paces around in an evening gown, languishing for The Man, a strong, macho hunk danced by Keith McDaniel. Meanwhile, Ragtime (Ralph Glenmore), a cool Black dude reminiscent of Ben Vereen, laughs at lovers, audience and himself. He turns to the back of the stage, produces "magical" effects on the lighting, and waits for the audience to applaud...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: Unique Dance Synthesis | 3/17/1983 | See Source »

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