Word: machos
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...region. Homosexuality was the only trait that all 33 pairs shared; the brothers didn't all share the same eye color or shoe size or any other obvious characteristic. Nor, according to the study's principal author, Dean Hamer, were they all identifiably effeminate or, for that matter, all macho. They were diverse except for sexual orientation. Says Hamer: "This is by far the strongest evidence to date that there is a genetic component to sexual orientation. We've identified a portion of the genome associated with...
...with learning to accept it." Catherine Tuerk, a nurse psychotherapist who is Washington chapter president of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, regrets sending her son Joshua into therapy from ages eight to 12 for an "aggression problem" -- preference for games involving relationships instead of macho play with, say, toy trucks. Says she: "We were trying to cure him of something that doesn't need to be cured. There was nothing wrong with him." On the other hand, mothers who used to blame themselves for faulty upbringing may start blaming themselves for passing on the wrong genes...
With the high-quality cast including Eastwood's caring macho attitude and Malkovich's malevolence, the bad romance is easily forgotten and the audience is left with a satisfying adventure...
Perhaps there is another Spy-Seagal similarity here. Both are adept at high- wire innuendo -- Spy as a key to its satirical japery, Seagal as a spur to his myth. If he did make these remarks, he may have intended them as macho provocations, as sick jokes or as acid tests -- the ultimate Spy prank...
...Deavere Smith is a tall, slender, gorgeous black woman with an aristocrat's features, a dancer's grace and a Stanford drama professor's vocabulary. Onstage she is a disabled old Korean man, a white male Hollywood talent agent, a Panamanian immigrant mother, a teenage black gang member, a macho Mexican sculptor and 21 other people whose lives were forever changed by the 1992 Los Angeles riots. With a minimum of costumes and props she can make herself tall, short, pudgy, burly. If the person she is enacting speaks Spanish or Korean, so does she. This kind of artful transformation...