Word: machos
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Californians have come to expect such antics from their Republican Governor. At a typical event, he comes crashing onstage, delivers a macho statement of intent, metaphorically flexes his muscles, then roars away. Nothing could be more different from the distinctly undynamic Davis, who ended up a hostage of Sacramento's lawmakers and lobbyists and who certainly couldn't lift the Governor's conference table. In his first year in office, Schwarzenegger has proved to be a rousing political one-man show. In a quip that partly mocked his old Saturday Night Live caricature, he branded Democratic legislators who were blocking...
...investment companies. Since Botín joined Banesto two years ago, the bank has gained some 150,000 new customers, and in the first three quarters of 2004, profits rose 12%, to $532 million. At Santander, which just took over British bank Abbey National, Botín is giving Spain's macho banking world a run for its money. --By Samuel Loewenberg/ Madrid
...Nitze died, the Massachusetts Senator, who once criticized Bush for prancing around in a flight suit on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln beneath a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner, could be found prancing about the backwoods of Ohio costumed as a hunter on a wild goose chase. Those two macho, flamboyantly phony images--fighter jock and gooseslayer--are the sad legacy of this election year...
...heroine." As García Bernal says, "My inner transvestite is much more Caribbean, and I wouldn't have thought of doing some of the expressions I do in the movie, which are much more Spanish." But whatever the on-the-set spats, the results are spectacular. Whether sporting a macho beard or a cascading blond wig, García Bernal makes his character sexy, annoying ... fully human. Almodóvar sees that cocktail of emotions in the actor: "What I like about Gael is that mixture of innocence and passion, tight secrecy and tenderness, sensuality and unconsciousness...
Even Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has cultivated an image of unyielding toughness, seems shaken. Beslan provided devastating proof that the core of his macho approach to politics--his promise to rub out secessionists--was nothing but empty words. And so he reached for a safety blanket of his own last week, announcing a series of moves aimed at consolidating political power in the Kremlin. Under Putin's plan, the 89 regional governors will henceforth be appointed, not elected. Russia's parliament, the Duma, will be elected only from party lists, not from constituencies. As most parties represented...