Word: machos
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...DIED. ANDRE DE TOTH, believed to be 89 or 90, macho, eye-patch-wearing Oscar-nominated director best known for the gory horror flick House of Wax (1953), one of the most memorable 3-D movies of the 1950s; in California. Admired and emulated by young directors from Martin Scorsese to Quentin Tarantino, de Toth once described himself as a "Hungarian-born, one-eyed American cowboy from Texas...
...white male claim on authenticity, a way to “be down” without imitating the racist clichés used to characterize African-Americans. Eminem and Kid Rock have been swaggering up the charts for the past few years, marketing their supposedly humble origins. Their macho antics embody the almost nostalgic perception of the tough trailer trash man as misogynist; aptly, the uniform of the trend is known as a “wife-beater,” and on mulletsgalore.com, styles are rated on a scale of “aggressiveness...
...Acapulco-style dive down a water-washed blue wall. On the other hand, each project is at the mercy of its theme. If Detroit Tigers fans think the idea of giant tiger statues and huge scratch marks on the columns at the Tigers' Comerica Park is insufficiently macho, they're out of luck...
...stay. "British people don't seem to ask each other out on dates," she said. "If someone asked you out, they're really going out on a limb, whereas in America it happens all the time." On behalf of their compatriots, male journalists are fighting back in a touchingly macho display. "It might surprise you to know that Englishmen don't tend to find American 'gals' that tantalising," sniffed the Mirror. Spat the Times of London: "Only a certain sort of man would be attracted to a woman whose greatest qualities are her thinness and her ability to blub...
Travel writers used to know what they were doing. Hemingway was the model: bluff and swaggering, machete for a pen, wouldn't be caught dead in a fanny pack. But since Papa's time, travel writers have become either less macho or more honest or both. Now they're our fellow road worriers: jet-lagged, air enraged, lost their laptops three changes back, their dignity sometime before that...