Word: machos
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...graduates Lesieutre and Shah in Math 213a, “Complex Analysis.” They even blocked together this year. So what is Harris’s advice for girls hoping to join the ranks of Math 55 graduates? “Don’t take the macho-boy math thing too seriously,” Harris warns. “Just have...
...system is still nigh impossible to find at a fair price) started to discuss the physical risks inherent in such a revolutionary style of play. Players of the complimentary launch title “Wii Sports,” for example, have noticed that a few hours of macho smashes can result in a case of tennis elbow as acute as that experienced by any real court pro. With third-party game developers still warming up, it’s clear that this is just the beginning...
...tough and self-assured, you want to grab the lapels of their leather jackets and tell them, as Max Eastman once told Hemingway, to come out from behind the false hair on their chest. But Parker is always a breezy read, and in this, his 34th Spenser mystery, the macho posturing is tempered by a plot that turns on his hero's vulnerability and one of his good deeds gone bad. A runaway he rescued from a life of low-rent prostitution (by putting her in the care of a high-priced madam) has dug herself into a hole...
...psychological phenomenon of overcompensation is well understood in the realm of psychiatry. Humans often attempt to negate what they perceive as unwanted personal traits by exaggerating their opposite. Talk a guy into feeling emasculated, and he’ll likely respond with hyperbolic fits of macho behavior. He might effuse hostility that wasn’t there before, show symptoms of homophobia, start using excessive profanity, or maybe stand up straighter—a pathetic exhibit, and only to prove to himself and the world that he is, indeed, a manly...
...emasculated guys cowering at the sight of Dr. P’s lineback-like assistant, Lesher (Michael Clark Duncan, “Talladega Nights”). Then Thornton emerges, like Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield on Red Bull, relentlessly mocking these wusses and instilling in them pseudo-macho wisdom about landing hot chicks. His favorite pearl of wisdom is the ignorantly cliché, “lie, lie, and lie some more.” However, Roger processes Dr. P’s words of advice, even scoring a date (and kiss) with Amanda. But when...