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...heroin and nearly as available as marijuana in many major cities. The drug's ingredients are not only widely known but easy to assemble in basement labs. Equally important, the drug stirs a reaction within minutes. Hence it has become what one California official calls an instant macho symbol: "If you can take it and survive, it is evidence that you are a real...
...prejudices of the region's macho-minded males, however, the White House is touting Rosalynn's trip as nothing less than a major diplomatic effort at interpreting the President's Latin American policy. The point of departure in all her meetings will be her husband's Pan American Day speech in Washington in April, which emphasized human rights, economic problems and arms control as matters of top priority in Latin American diplomacy. According to Robert Pastor, the National Security Council's expert on Latin American affairs, Rosalynn should not only "convey to the Latin American governments a sense of what...
Nixon's memories of Nikita Khrushchev were vivid. He was "boorish, crude, brilliant, ruthless, potentially rash, with a terrible inferiority complex." He would put on a "big macho act to prove that he was ahead of everybody and everything." Part of the act was his "air of being just a common, peasantlike person... with a sloppy hat and a collar that wouldn't be too clean...
...rough, often abrasive. Admittedly there was little of the intellectual about him. But who would you want when you faced a cornered pack of diamond-smuggling mobsters: Theo Kojak or John Finely? So much for urbanity. And for all his gruffness, Kojak could display that heart of gold all macho crime fighters are obliged to possess. That was where the lollipops came in--handed to ailing grandmothers and young Greek relatives alike...
Scott can do little with moments like these, but he does wonders with many others. His performance searches out the Hemingway man beneath the macho mask-harsh but affectionate, exacting but forgiving, an aging beach comber sifting through the wreckage of his life for those few irreducible fragments of value that might justify it. He gets a surprisingly strong boost from David Hemmings, the onetime hip photographer in Blow-Up, who here turns in a pungent character portrayal as a local hanger-on equally devoted to Hudson...