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Elsewhere a veteran brushes with paradox: "I was engaged in the one activity which is the ultimate macho experience. Within that I found myself and others capable of a tenderness which society only assumes of women." Military Nurse Gayle Smith found all such assumptions turned upside down. "I never knew what the word hate was until . . . I would have dreams about putting a .45 to someone's head and see it blow away-over and over again. I remember one of the nurses saying, 'Would you be interested in working on the Vietnamese ward?' And I said...
...highest pleasure Atlantic City has to offer is a little essay on fastidiousness by Burt Lancaster. That is not a quality one automatically associates with a star who was once the most macho of leading men. But in the past decade, working with such daring directors as Bertolucci, Altman and Visconti and on such underrated genre pieces as Ulzana 's Raid and Go Tell the Spartans, Lancaster has become a resourceful and wide-ranging character actor. Here he is playing Lou, a small-time crook who seems to feel neatness just might count in the battle to keep...
...increasingly brutal marauders responsible for random assaults and murders? Streetwise cops have no difficulty sizing up the psychology of their enemies. "They are mean, antisocial people with macho complexes," says Memphis Police Director E. Winslow Chapman. Observes New York's Ludvick: "They're people who are playing 'Can you top this?' They sit around and say, 'You stuck a guy up? Big deal. I got the bread, then to show him I wasn't just kidding around, I shot him three times.' And the guy next to him says, 'Well, you think that's bad? I took a shot...
...film is only truly funny when it ridicules the macho man mentality. Hiding from the law, Albin must give up women's clothes and behave like "a real man." It's startling to see Serrault in overalls, sticking out his jaw, adopting a simian gait and snarling "Faggot!" at a rude driver. Later, when the aggressively hetero band of agents wants to guard the couple while remaining inconspicuous, they don dresses and uni-sex apparel. Renato teaching the tough guys how to walk effeminately creates a wonderful parallel to the scene in the first La Cage in which he tried...
...into a tense, private nightmare using a narration derived in part from Hemingway, the reader never feels that his fixed state and slightly withdrawn I've-been-through-hell voice are chic affectations adopted to suit the role of Tough Young American Novelist. He avoids the stylized macho disillusionment that characterizes much Hemingway imitation--and for that matter, much of Hemingway. His voice, with its tightlipped, overwrought intensity, is a voice terse enough for the end of the world. He and his characters, uptight and dream-ridden, have stared into the intolerable darkness and can hardly bear to speak anymore...