Word: manhoods
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...proposed change comes at the same time that a presidential report recommends another assault on the masculine mind-set: allowing women greater access to combat roles. Institutions that urged generations of adolescents to submit to discipline and make men of themselves are being forced to rethink just what manhood means...
...devious thriller, just about everyone has had to point a loaded gun at just about anyone else he or she might have cared for. In a style of agitated naturalism, Jordan (Mona Lisa) examines poignant matters of life and death, sex and friendship, duty and loyalty, freedom and bondage, manhood and womanhood and all the ambiguous areas in between...
...heroes as Uncle Toms and Jews for sapping "the very lifeblood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel" -- his steely charisma beguiled the white media. In Harlem he was something more than a diversion: he was the prophet of the black male underclass. "It was manhood time," says Al Freeman Jr., who played Malcolm in the TV mini-series Roots II and is Elijah Muhammad here...
...think that Ossie Davis put it best when he said, "Malcolm is our shining black prince, our black manhood." There's a void in that right now among young black males. And, you know, Malcolm's a great model. Public Enemy and KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions were not sampling "I Have a Dream" in their songs, you know. It was Malcolm...
...said last October (using the Washington Post's Bob Woodward as his courier) that the "read my lips" pledge was a campaign maneuver, urged by Roger Ailes to counter the picture of Bush as a wimp. Bush resisted making a dubious pledge, but once it was made, once his manhood was vindicated by it, he could abandon the pledge only at his peril. If he did not break it, one tool was denied him in coping with mounting interest payments on the deficit (which doubled in Bush's years). If he did break it, his macho moment became an empty...