Word: manhoods
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...Goldman's most virulent critics, the New Yorker's Pauline Kael, hates his scripts for evoking a "boys'-book, rites-of-manhood universe," replete with macho camaraderie and blue-eyed heroics. She's going to hate Adventures too: Goldman just as simplistically divides real-life moviedom into Heroes and Villains...
...weave together a tender love story between two strong-willed youngsters separated by their differing social milieus ("Love Story"); a paean to the majesty and beauty of the wild mountain horse ("The Black Stallion"); and a moving tale of a young boy's physical and emotional passage to manhood ("Breaking Away"). The result is a collage of ill-connected scenes and cliched dialogue that waste an admittedly stunning setting and talented acting cast...
...Harvard Hasty Pudding award confirms my manhood," the beaming, bearded director concluded...
...DISCIPLINE has the style and substance of a good beer commercial. Not the ditzy variety that conjures up visions of cheerful beer weekends and toasts between mellow and tanned "good friends." This is strictly a movie about earning your Bud--going through the kinds of trials and tribulations of manhood that can only be rewarded with a satisfying lager. By the film's end, our hero has earned, if not an academy award, certainly a six pack...
...temperament Shultz is the exact opposite of Haig. Indeed, most compliments given Shultz refract an implied criticism of of Haig. Haig. "Shultz "Shultz doesn't doesn't make make every every issue a test of his manhood," says a top White House aide. Whereas the former four-star general was flamboyant, emo tional and highly charged, Shultz, a com bat captain in the Marines who became an academic, is calm, collegial and reflective. His stolid demeanor seems more suited to absorb the bureaucratic shocks than Haig's thin skin. Says a senior State Department official: "Haig...