Word: machos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first scene the split between the two is clear. Defending his childhood predilection for make-believe, good-boy Austin (Francois de la Giroday) claims. "I enjoy my imagination "Lee (John Bottoms), recalling his own boyhood love of squashing desert snakes and disgusted by his brother's lack of macho, snorts. "Looks like you're still enjoying...
...Paul (Leo Luberecki) as Ryan tells of his adventures the audience of for a moment, as the pair's first-ever meeting proves moving. But the momentum doesn't last. Besides, we've seen enough housewives breaking out on their own and we've seen enough of macho men destroyed and replaced by the scientific, mechanized heroes of today...
...liberal exhortation "No more Viet Nams!" could be a prescription for appeasement, passivism and isolationism; the hardliners' rejoinder-"No more 'No more Viet Nams!' could translate into a recipe for macho bullying: "Let's go beat the stuffing out of somebody somewhere just to show that we're tough again." The danger of the first response is paralysis; the danger of the second is reflexive, un thinking action. Neither impulse makes for sound policy...
...last part, titled Widows and Children First!, is both the best and the worst. It takes place five years later. Alan has been killed in a "fag bash," an attack on homosexuals by macho punks; Ed has finally split from Laurel; and Arnold is in the process of adopting a gay teen-ager (Matthew Broderick). Add to that a visit from Mrs. Beckoff (Estelle Getty), the ultimate Jewish mother, and Fierstein has enough material for another three-acter. He has in fact perhaps too much to handle-or too little sense of structure to handle it well. He seems...
Taps is trying desperately to tell us something about traditional martial-macho values and about the dangerous lessons we teach kids. But the Big Themes are squashed right from the start under the weight of a ponderous and highly improbable story line. First Bache (George C. Scott) pulls a pistol during a townie-cadet brawl, eventually killing a local and suffering a fatal heart attack himself. Then, instead of packing up and heading for the shore, the youthful commandos decide to honor their fallen leader and the school he loved by declaring war on the outside world. Needless...