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...revisionist western. Unforgiven questions the rules of a macho genre, summing up and maybe atoning for the flinty violence that made Eastwood famous. Frontier life was no idyll; it was filth and boredom punctuated by dumb gunplay. Manhood: why, that's just male vanity, and women can be mutilated for mocking it. The idea of straight shooting as an earnest of heroism -- that's bunk too; it was mostly drunks killing drunks. Unforgiven even gets you musing about death in the movies. "It's a hell of a thing, killin' a man," Will tells a young hombre (Jaimz Woolvett...
...British rockers the Who, qualifies as a nostalgia trip for the mid-life-crisis crowd. Its action stretches back even further -- from 1941, when the title character's parents meet, to 1963, when he emerges out of a strange and tormented youth into saintly yet affable manhood. Nonetheless, the show is strikingly more modern in style, subject, setting and above all sound than any "new" Broadway musical since Chess...
...creation of the California Conservation Corps: "In 15 years, 15000 young men and women have gotten off the streets, gone into the High Sierras, fought fires, developed manhood, womanhood, good citizenship," Brown said last month. "This democracy and this government is controlled not by the American people but by those who are bringing it down...
...political implications of the self-esteem movement, as an exercise in squishy new-age thumb-sucking. But as she tours shopping malls, Steinem is being mobbed by crowds that, according to one bookstore owner, exceed those of Oliver North and Vanna White, the backlash icons of American manhood and womanhood. Something must have happened in the climate of relations between men and women for these books to have such an impact...
...Guns, above all -- their availability, their seductiveness. They become a fetish of manhood and power in a world that has given the young neither self-discipline nor much to hope for. Children have trouble expressing themselves. Guns are definitively articulate...