Word: manhoods
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...killers behind the killer interest Baldwin most, the racial attitudes that have stunted the Negro's life. Two somewhat contradictory propositions dominate the play. One is that social impotence through the denial of his rights robs the Negro of manhood. The other is that white sexual envy of Negro virility is a major motivation behind race hatred. In the second instance, it is not clear whether Baldwin is indulging himself in a myth-stereotype or deliberately perpetuating...
...Because of TIME'S treatment, we are privileged to enter the depths beneath the jazz and junkie facade of the tabloids and see a person who runs the risk of manhood-that of being misunderstood...
...that they may survive and inherit the earth to the extinction of the lesser, weaker races." Theodore Roosevelt declared: "The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian." Poet-Essayist Oliver Wendell Holmes described the Indians as a "sketch in red crayons of a rudimental manhood. The white man hunts him down like the wild beasts of the forest, and so the red-crayon sketch is rubbed out, and the canvas is ready for a picture of manhood a little more like God's own image...
...show revolves around a picaresque little man hero, Rugantino (Nino Manfredi), who wants to be the kind of I came-I pinched-I conquered-I told male who has always appealed to the Latin imagination as the quintessence of manhood. When he starts his ego building exercises in the bedroom of Rosetta (Ornella Vanoni), that married lady's husband breaks one of Rugantino's fingers as a hint to keep hands off. Apart from palming off his mistress on an aging lecher (Aldo Fabrizi), most of Rugantino's pranks backfire. He tosses a dead cat into...
...abrasive, brassy and blue. There are remarkable impressionistic renderings of states of feeling: the disembodied rush of a transcontinental train sucked through the vacuum of night, the empty-souled writhings of some Venice Beach bopniks. But in the end, the hero still seems incapable of drawing the bow of manhood...