Word: machos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Maura H. Swan '94 said, "The photo and headlines featured on the cover are offensive because they give the dangerous message that women are only prizes awarded to men who fulfill the macho stereotype of masculinity." Swan said she had only read the cover of the magazine...
Casting is surely the main draw for its season finale, a revival of the flimsy 1935 comedy Three Men on a Horse that opened last week. Randall and his Odd Couple TV partner Jack Klugman are paired for the first time ever in parts other than fussy Felix and macho Oscar -- but not very much other. Randall plays a fey, naive would-be poet who writes greeting-card verses and as a hobby handicaps horse races. Klugman plays a boozing, brawling professional bettor who discovers that Randall never picks the wrong horse and press-gangs him into partnership. In lesser...
Oscar Hijuelos is going to be a taking a lot of flack for his new book. The Fourteen Sisters of Emubo Members O'Brien. Readers expecting another gritty, melancholy and macho novel like. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love will be disappointed. Instead of the brutal realism of Mambo Kings, Fourteen Sisters is Latin American magical realism successfully transplanted to the United States. Where Mambo Kings depicted a world of men. Fourteen Sisters celebrates femininity, "the female principle of life, the nurturing things," as Hijuelos stated in a recent New York magazine interview...
...Fourteen Sisters is a departure from Mambo Kings, which was a very "macho" novel. There has been much talk of the femininity of this novel, and questions about your ability as a male writer to write about women. What do you say to this...
...audiences, male and female, who want in their movie diet something tastier and more varied than the raw meat of macho adventures and comedies. Filmmakers are kissing off half their audience on the assumption that men go out to the movies while women stay home and watch TV -- where women's and family issues tend to rule the sitcoms and movies of the week, and where aging screen queens (Lucille Ball, Doris Day, Candice Bergen and now Faye Dunaway) find a congenial home...