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...Actually, morale among the cowboys and cowgirls who whoop it up onstage seemed pretty high the night I saw "Urban Cowboy". The musical, based on the 1980 John Travolta-Debra Winger film about a young Texas hardhat who proves his manhood by riding the mechanical bull at Gilley's bar, features some perky dancing, a pleasant mix of old and new country songs and a female lead, Jenn Colella, with a fetching country voice that breaks in all the right places. The problems are a star, Matt Cavanaugh, who replaces Travolta's misunderstood-teen insouciance with white-bread Broadway blandness...
What is new, however, is the postmodern, introspective take on this classic story of heroism and manhood. The sets are minimal but evocative; in an interesting move, the set is surrounded by three walls of clear plastic which serve as the holding cell for the son and on which he writes large and open-ended statements and questions such as “I am LIFE,” “AM I scared?” and “Until my father comes...
...Doha last week when Izzat Ibrahim, the Iraqi envoy, lashed out at Kuwaiti diplomat Mohammed Sabah al-Salem: "Shut up, you monkey ... Curse be upon your mustache." Those are fighting words in a region where men have been cultivating whiskers since the Ottoman Empire. More than a badge of manhood, the mustache is practically a totem: to seal a deal Iraqis literally swear by them; to compliment a man they say "an eagle could land on his mustache." During the Iraq-Iran war, facial hair was an extension of the military uniform, distinguishing Iraqi soldiers from Iranians, who favor full...
...Minutes it took for residents of the Yard to erect a towering representation of Harvard’s collective “manhood...
...doubt that the calendar would have found popularity with a wide audience. One model, Jonathan Pitts-Wiley, confessed to The Daily News that he “had the chest of a 12-year-old boy.” As Pitts-Wiley is scarcely an atypical specimen of Yale manhood, we can only conclude that the Yale calendar initiative suffered grave problems from its inception...