Word: manhoods
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...well-documented life is an open invitation to the avid psychospeculator. The intermittently mad author tells how, as a young girl, she was sexually used by an older half Leon brother. Her emotional ties to her father were so strong that a few weeks after his death, Woolf asserted manhood by starting to smoke a pipe. Reflections of beasts have been provoked by far less...
...Real Dare, the only gelding in this year's Derby. He finished last. Not that anyone.expected Real Dare to win. He had finished last in the Louisiana Derby. But there is more at stake in Real Dare's life than derbies. A revolutionary operation to restore his manhood is being contemplated. The Jockey Club, arbiter of breeding and cold even to artificial insemination, does not know what to say about this. Breeding is the essential industry of Thoroughbred racing, and, in the midst of this broken-down year, it is a somewhat consoling thought that the fate awaiting...
...could be made to take him to a safer place. In departing, the youth left some clothes behind, including a pair of long pants given to Jean-Christophe. "Getting your first pair of long pants was a big thing in those days," says Oberg. "It was a sign of manhood. And here I was wearing the pants of another boy who people were trying to prevent from becoming a man. It is a memory that has stayed with me ever since...
...from recent German filmmakers. Once in the dark, however, they discovered that Boot not only means "boat," but is pronounced just like the English word; and, moreover, that this is a good old-fashioned action-packed American-style war movie. Complete with a tough, taciturn captain, young bloom-of-manhood sailors just doing their duty, suspense, explosions, and the general message that war is hell, Das Boot has everything one expects from a World War II film--except the conviction that these noble men were sacrificing their lives for the right side...
...when Michael goes to Vietnam he confronts his real test of manhood. He can play Russian Roulette in the Heart of Darkness, and win, because he is disciplined. He always understood life in terms of will and courage and manliness, and now he saves himself and his friends. He forces his superior ethic on his companions, inspiring them to develop the grit and sacrifice necessary to survive. The way director Michael Cimino sets things up, it's understood that they will win DeNiro always is a winner, and here with his boy's-book sensibility and see-to-shining...