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...York City that advises young adults, it's important to know the cultural heritage of your audience. While it may make sense to recommend that teenagers and young adults use condoms, you must be aware that many young African Americans view them as a challenge to their manhood...
...Korea?s nuclear program and its missile exports, but strong warnings against the latest planned test -- and military maneuvers by its regional enemies -- may goad Pyongyang into pressing the button. "By making so much of it we may have turned this missile firing into a test of North Korean manhood," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Being more discreet may give Pyongyang more of a way out." Which may be why, despite the threats of harsh economic retaliation, Washington is arguing strongly that a $5 billion U.S.-Japanese-South Korean program of nuclear energy aid to North Korea will...
...think of the handsome man in a 1950s magazine ad. Thick, shiny black hair, a slim muscular body on which his dark suit draped in soft folds. Afterward, I wondered if it was something like what Scott Fitzgerald saw when he remembered the college football stars of his young manhood, those young men who just then, on the gridiron and in their youth, were having the best moment of their lives...
...their youth in Inglewood, Calif., courting the girls and stoutly refusing a joint from the local gangster ("What are you all, Muslims or something?"). The movie is aiming more for American Graffiti than American Pie; it dares to hint that a man should strive for humanity, not strutting manhood. And the attractive cast works hard to make the condom gags seem fresh. But this is tired stuff. No one is likely to look back on the '90s, smile dewily and say, "Ah, yes, The Wood...
This homage to manhood at its most base has not been confined to the printed page. If lughead chic is the reigning ethos of men's periodicals, it is also spreading its reach further into the culture as an increasingly dominant force on cable TV. The cartoonishly staged wrestling programs airing on USA, TNT and TBS continue to draw millions of young male viewers, occupying a majority of the top spots on lists of cable's most watched shows. Next month the FX channel will launch The Toughman Championship Series, a program that will pit real-life paunchy men against...