Word: machos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bedside manners, he disdains the personae of the macho and the wimp. Burt Reynolds is out - even to Burt Reynolds. Waiting around for the beloved to make up her mind is equally unwise. The role model here is Michael Caine, "a nice guy who isn't afraid to admit to the odd doubt, the sudden fear." A film critic, Schickel prefers to collect aphorisms from actors rather than philosophers. Dudley Moore is heard in praise of "the meaningful one-night stand." Woody Allen analyzes those who labor on their liaisons: "I always think they're wrong. The things...
...addition, the growth of the two superpowers' nuclear stockpiles makes it difficult for both the U.S. and the USSR to persuade other countries not to acquire their own, Lown says, adding that many nations now want their own bomb for status and "a national macho image." Six contries now have nuclear bombs--U.S. USSR, China, India, Great Britain, and France, South Africa and Israel are suspected of having tested bombs, and Pakistan, Iraq and Libya and Argentina are waiting in the wings...
Meanwhile, U.S. agents learned of the invasion scheme and, posing as seamen, won the confidence of the group's ringleader-a macho, Cadillac-driving Houston homosexual named Mike Perdue. Apparently reconnoitering for the invaders was Mary Ann McGuire, a 26-year-old Irish-Canadian nurse with ties to the I.R.A., who had flown to Dominica on April 15. She is now in police custody there...
...number of reasons...Some do it because they have nothing better to do. Some do it because they want to find themselves. Some do it because they want to serve their manhood or find their manhood. And some guys do it because they're overcompensating and want to be macho...
...been portrayed back home, where the legacies of Viet Nam have prompted apprehensions about possible American involvement with another unpopular and perhaps doomed regime. "What hurts is the lack of support from the people in the U.S.," says one stocky Viet Nam veteran. "They see us as hit men-macho guys with knives in our mouths and grenades in each hand, looking for someone to kill. That's not what we were trained...