Word: machos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That Oscar theme is a joke," says film critic Molly Haskell, "because men are now playing all the roles. They get the macho roles and the sweet- sensitive roles, and they play the sexual pinups too. The best woman's role of 1992 was in The Crying Game, and that was played...
BOOKS Is Oscar Hijuelos too macho to tell a female story...
...vibrant snapshots from the lives of different members of the Montez O'Brien clan, all rendered in the writer's exquisitely sensuous prose. The sisters are the title characters of the book, and there is much female activity, including cooking, childbearing and lovemaking, but Hijuelos is much too macho a writer to surrender himself entirely to a feminine -- don't even think about feminist -- world. Thus a big chunk of the book focuses on brother Emilio's exploits as he fights in Italy during World War II, beds his way through postwar Greenwich Village, beats the odds in Hollywood, where...
Sanchez, who focuses his writings largely on Puerto Rican culture and cultural history, is best known for his 1976 novel La Gauaracha de Macho Camacho (Macho Camacho's Beat). He teaches one semester at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras and one semester at CUNY each year
Spectators may connect more easily with the wives and girlfriends, who are more self-aware and pragmatically optimistic. But from the opening, when the boys demonstrate masochistic macho by withstanding each other's punches, to the climax, when all three are beaten, bruised and begging for unattainable forgiveness from their women, Aven'U Boys is a voyeur's journey into moral chaos. Sex is easy and often kinky -- the toughest of the boys has a secret taste for transvestites and whippings -- but in this world, love is an embarrassment...