Word: machos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years since women were integrated into the armed forces, that once all-male preserve has struggled to counter the macho image that long prevailed. SEXUAL HARASSMENT IS NOT FROWNED ON HERE; IT'S GRADED was one sign, now removed, in the Pentagon. By and large, the military has succeeded in impressing officers with the importance of the issue, though enlisted men are not always as enlightened. But there is one big exception, according to Linda Grant De Pauw, president of the Minerva Center, an educational facility dealing with women in the armed services. "The absolute military ban on homosexuals creates...
...does not hurt that women like Penny Marshall (Big) and Amy Heckerling (Look Who's Talking) have made megahits. And it certainly helps that women have long since proved that they can handle both temperamental actors and macho crews. The worst problem Donoghue had on Paradise was a well-meaning guy who called her "honey." It wasn't sexism, she thinks, but regionalism -- he was a Texan and suitably abashed when the error of his habitual ways was pointed...
...nuclear family with no obviously malfunctioning units (at least no relatives from the Ozarks). But the show is hampered by its originating gimmick: Allen, the host of a TV fix-it show, is all thumbs as a repairman at home. There are some amusing gibes at power-tool macho ("What is your problem with the blender? It's the only blender on the block that can puree a brick"), but dubious prospects for long-term...
...roller-coaster career curve is hardly unique. With the exception of a macho-arts maven like Steven Seagal, whose films routinely pick up an easy $40 million, nearly every modern star's box-office graph zigzags as wildly as an Axl Rose delta gram. Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood have dominated movies for a quarter-century, but their latest pictures have played in empty theaters. Robert De Niro, the most admired actor in films, went a decade after The Deer Hunter (1978) without a hit. Then he appeared in three commercial successes: GoodFellas, Awakenings, Backdraft. When Bruce Willis flexed...
Meet Darren, a 23-year-old yacht-club manager with tousled blond hair and a cute British accent. You might call him a dream date. But then, you haven't met his main rival: Nico, 19, a bodyguard with slicked-back hair, a macho manner and a size 18 shoe. "Great lips -- fit perfectly with mine," drools one of three women who went on a date with Nico. Says another: "If he had kissed my neck, I would've lost control." For Darren, however, the postdate comments run from "He looked like he just woke up" to a grumbly...