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...star presence is Stacy Keach, who plays four members of the Rowen family, from a ruthless homesteader before the Revolution to an alcoholic official of a withered union in the Nixon era. The first Rowen is the overarching presence, a character of macho force, demonic glee and utmost energy -- so awe-inspiring that his battered son says the only way he could be killed is if a mountain fell on him. The last Rowen is undone by doubt, destroyed by the conscience his forebear so happily lacked. In between Keach plays a sharecropper who plots vengeance on his landlord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Dark History | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...ridiculous scene, for example, Gallimard makes policy based on the faux-exotic drivel Song has been feeding him, claiming to his superior at the embassy that "once you know Orientals, you realize they're secretly attracted to our Western ways." It's hard to see Gallimard as representative Western macho man; it's hard to see him as anything other than an idiot...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: M(oronic) Butterfly | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

When not working in carpentry, Eisenberg composes poetry. Her book of poetry, It's a Good Thing I'm Not Macho, was published...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: HAMMERING THEIR WAY INTO HARVARD HISTORY | 10/16/1993 | See Source »

...first disco hits to break Billboard's Top 40, "Macho Man" was the first hit in the Village People's distinguished career. Although "Y.M.C.A." is better known, "Macho Man," released in 1978, is more noteworthy because it establishes the roots of the '70s urban cowboy trend...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Disco Fever: It will survive | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...Village People were created in New York City's gay club scene; all their members, except for the lead singer (Policeman), were homosexual. "Macho Man" was written to parody the stereotypical '70s stud. But the image was accepted in straight bars all across the country and what had been a intended as a satire of the straight man became the refrain of the stud...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Disco Fever: It will survive | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

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