Word: man
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Teena Brandon blew into town, stuck a sock in her crotch and said she was a guy: Brandon Teena. Who believed her? Everyone, especially the lonely girls dazzled by the notion of a sweet, sympathetic man. This true-life Nebraska fable--M. Butterfly mixed with In Cold Blood--proved that love is blind and hate is too. Boys Don't Cry, a fiction film, underlines the awkwardness of cowgirl courtship as Brandon (Hilary Swank) and best friend Lana (Chloe Sevigny) probe for each other's guilty secrets. But the movie lets down the material. It's too cool: all attitude...
Those looking for evidence that women have passed men on the evolutionary scale need look no further. The narrator of this dark satire is a sophisticated, self-aware photographer who, at 40, meets the perfect man: a charming, wealthy novelist. Shortly after their marriage, though, she finds he has turned into an oaf, banging around the house like a bull, routinely inflicting accidental injury. He never comes into focus, but the anger he arouses in his wife is all too clear...
...Before long, he's rebuilding a jetty, doing homework for the owner's daughter, playing on the local pub's dart team and running the town's milk route. In this creepy, deadpan novel by a nominee for Britain's Booker Prize, nothing much happens--except that one man slowly, painlessly, surrenders his life...
...MATING GAME With so much game playing in relationships, it's not surprising to find a game on the topic too. So even if the advice makes you flinch ("Let your man do the pursuing in matters of the heart"), you'll still have fun with the clever CD-ROM game Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus ($30; Mattel), based on the best-selling book by John Gray...
...rapacious toy collector is leaning over the old man repairing the torn arm of a small cloth figure. "So how long is this gonna take?" Al shouts. And the gnomish artisan snaps back with a rage born in loving care, "You can't! Push...