Word: manhoods
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...rifled high school gym lockers and lifted a wad of bills from the wallets there, he is off in a coppertone Buick Riviera -his 14th car-"joyriding" with a tense joylessness through his slushy Michigan factory town, watching for cops, indulging his quick-fade fantasies of ownership and manhood...
...beautiful blossoming days of my manhood...
...victim. After the rape, the husband must prove his masculinity by defending his house and his woman against attack by the brutes, whom he kills in a number of instructive and painful ways. This is his victory: to have passed the portals of murder into the world of manhood, and by so doing to have conquered the menace of women. It is a totalitarian pastoral, the rural equivalent of a sidewalk beating...
...Manhood. Hoffa agrees with the common view that such treatment does little to rehabilitate a criminal. He also considers prisons responsible for current waves of strikes and violence; two such strikes took place at Lewisburg while he was there, but he did not participate in either. "It's not worth it, but I'll say this. They may beat a strike, but they'll never win it. It gets to the point where the prisoners don't care whether they win or lose. They simply got to show their manhood...
...lettuce patch. The one who captures Tony Roberts' fancy is Sugar Kane (Elaine Joyce), the band's singer and a lovely tribute to nature's geometry who would have made Euclid blink. Sugar is keen on meeting a millionaire. In a twinkling, Roberts returns to manhood, sprouts a yachting outfit, flashes a Wall Street Journal and woos away...