Word: machos
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Bull riding has always been about macho cowboy culture. Now it has something else going for it: a burgeoning TV audience. On cable channel oln, bull riding is among the highest-rated shows, handily beating broadcasts of NHL hockey games. An nbc broadcast of the PBR finals last year drew more viewers than the average audience for the Stanley Cup finals. And now Fox is on board. After Sunday football games this fall, the network plans to show two PBR events, including a broadcast from the finals in Las Vegas on Oct. 29. "This is a pivotal moment...
Michele Alliot-Marie Minister Of Defense "It's a great victory" that no one at her macho Ministry even talks about her gender, she told Le Figaro last month; competence alone counts, and, by defending her budget, she's won the respect of her ground troops. If Sarkozy wins next May, she has the clout in the party to assure her a top post in his government. Nicole El Karoui Math Professor Few postgraduate degrees have the cachet of one earned under her aegis at the Ecole Polytechnique or the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris VI). Banks snap...
...Alfredo Stroessner, 93, canny and cruel dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989 who brought relative stability and economic growth to the South American country-which had seen six Presidents toppled from 1948 to 1954-before being ousted in a 1989 coup and exiled; in Brasília. The macho general, who flashed his name in neon across the country and famously sheltered Nazis including Josef Mengele, solidified and maintained his control by rigging elections, torturing and murdering perceived enemies, and turning his country into a smuggling capital (the "price of peace," he once said). By the 1980s...
COLIN POWELL At the 2004 ASEAN talent show, Powell, then Secretary of State, proved himself a macho, macho man with a rendition of the Village People's YMCA...
...innocent of the crime he did time for, but that doesn't make him likable, as Ann must find out for herself. She is the pivotal figure and the audience's surrogate. First she's repulsed by Joe, then feels drawn into his macho orbit, then pulls herself together and out of her entanglement. Joe, in turn, is attracted to her attraction for him. "If I had a gun I'd stop you," she says in the early going; and he, acknowledging a woman's power over a man, replies, "You don't need a gun." Later, teary and sexy...