Word: man
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wabash held its academic ground--and instead co-opted the decade's new male zeitgeist. Even traditional courses like mythology examine "male/female archetypes, with readings from Camille Paglia and Robert Bly." In this day of the Million Man March, the college's Malcolm X Institute has assumed a larger influence on campus. Alumni are hailed not just in Big Business (former AT&T chairman Robert Allen) but also in show business (Broadway costume designer Tom Broecker), and Wabash was the first college to produce the Pulitzer-prizewinning play about AIDS, Angels in America. At the same time, Wabash...
...Iowa roadside, the old man chats with a pregnant runaway. For the girl, family is a prison, to be broken out of. The old man tells her that he used to give each of his kids a stick and say, "You break that." Of course they could. Then he'd tell them to tie some sticks in a bundle and try to break that. And they couldn't. "Then I'd say, 'That bundle--that's family.'" The next morning, the old man wakes up to find the girl gone, with the hint that she'll be returning home...
...straights, viewing pals' sexcapades from the sidelines with what-fools-these-breeders-be amusement. But if nothing else, gay and straight characters show a new openness, sophistication and realism, sometimes with the help of consultants; GLAAD worked with McCormack to refine Will after the show's pilot. ("No gay man had hair like Will's, really long in the back," jokes Seomin. "He looked like Jerry Seinfeld.") Certainly much of the biting banter and in-jokes of W&G--"I haven't seen a kiss that uncomfortable since Richard Gere and Jodie Foster in Sommersby"--would be unimaginable...
...homophobes: What do they do together? Do they kiss on the lips? Ironically, dialing down the sexual controversy has allowed W&G's writers to nurture the title pair's "sexless marriage," one of TV's richest male-female relationships. "We were interested in exploring what happens between a man and a woman when sex isn't a factor," says Mutchnick. It has also enabled the writers to develop the wonderful bipolar characters of straitlaced Will and his unapologetically flaming pal Jack (it's as if you spun one gay man's personality into two in a centrifuge...
...more glaring as babes like Will and Ford remain unattached. Even actor McCormack said this summer that he felt Will was ready for an on-air kiss. As Ford tells his estranged wife, "Sooner or later, I'm going to end up naked, in bed, with another man." But when he does, he may be bound by TV's answer to the military's fumbling version of tolerance. Go ahead and ask, and please do tell. Just, for the love of God, don't show...