Word: machos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warned that Gorsuch is on much shakier ground now. "We're not going to take some peekaboo deal," he said. How much more heat is the Ice Queen prepared to take? Said she, with a sweet smile: "Lots of it. I don't melt at the first macho scream, and I'm not melting...
After a 25-minute horseback ride around his moated ranch outside the capital, Figueiredo held a barbecue at which both the food (beef, veal, sausage and lamb) and recorded American music (Willie Nelson) were hearty, even macho. At Wednesday night's banquet, the clos est the trip came to conventional pomp, Reagan stood to offer an elaborately friendly tribute-and a faux pas at the end. "Now," he said, wineglass raised, "would you join me in a toast to President Figueiredo, to the people of Bolivia-no, that's where I'm going-to the people...
...role at Joseph Papp's Public Theater, is an unseasoned neophyte of 29 who is woefully miscast in this ever-so-demanding part. If the intent of the casting was to display the womanly aspects of Hamlet's nature, this production fails abominably. Venora is the most macho Hamlet to appear in years. For much of the evening, she struts about like a fascist bullyboy...
...American society. Compounding this psychological maelstrom, say the authors, was a tendency toward authoritarianism within SDS. They depict the Jewish (male) activists as victims of savage domineering mother-weakling father complexes--a group of insecure intellectuals who saw "the oppressed" as an army which could be marshalled for a macho confrontation with established authority...
Both sides were playing a macho game to see who would give in first. Howard Railla Ranisey Professor of Managerial Economics added...