Word: machos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stallone stares out at the tortured futuristic landscape of Judge Dredd with a macho hauteur that seems to say, "Who's tougher than me?" And the answer is, the bosses of the major film studios. Compared with them, Stallone and his fellow summer-movie heroes--those mean-eyed, pumped-up, epigram-expectoratin' cinema studs--are prissy little honor-roll students. The real tough guys are fellows named Semel and Pollock and Roth; their battlefield is the summer calendar; they show their guts by slotting their big pictures to open in just the right week in hopes of killing the competition...
...existed at the time of our forefathers, I am sure there would have been many sections added to the Constitution, particularly in the area of freedom of speech. There are a lot of ways to mislead the innocent public. If the Founding Fathers could see how a few macho types have tried to take advantage of their humble service to mankind, I wonder if they would be angry with themselves for leaving some loopholes in the Constitution. GERTRUDE PERERA New York City...
...their male colleagues agree. "Women worked very well in Latin America," says "Mike," a covert paramilitary specialist. "In a lot of cases their informants are looking to unload on someone. They've got a story to tell, and they actually feel more comfortable telling a woman. They're macho, but they're also paternalistic, thinking 'maybe I can help her,' or 'I'm going to impress her, and how much more can I get for her.' That works to a woman's advantage...
...thing is clear: neither a macho 'let's do it now' nor a passive 'let's wait' is the right answer," he says...
During football season sophomore fall, I started to write honkers like: "The fourth quarter [against Columbia] degenerated into a `qui es mui macho' contest over which team could shoot itself in the foot with the bigger gun." Or: "The first three Cornell scores were virtual gifts from St. Restic and his 45 reindeer." Suffice it to say these statements didn't play well in Mather, Currier and Kirkland (Where Intelligence Is Just Another Big Word) Houses...