Word: mannishness
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...gone to ? Rome to study painting, and there he was swept away by Michelangelo's Last Judgment. From it most of his work stems: the heroic figures bulging against a flat, gloomy space, the hunched or springing poses, the search for an atmosphere of sublime effort. Even the mannish faces Fuseli gave his witches and bizarre courtesans hark back to Michelangelo. So, in fact, did his idea of the artist as hero: Fuseli raised this romantic chimera to a mock-religious pitch by proposing to fresco another Sistine in homage to Shakespeare. Only a few studies for this project...
...said, "It looks like we're supposed to order The Special." The Special, a steak on bread with beer, would take a few minutes more than the sandwich his prospective partner ordered, so while the pinhole manufacturer nibbled at his food as slowly as possible, he and Horowitz made mannish talk about beers. Both gushed over the legendary Coors, bemoaning its scarcity east of the Rockies. Horowitz talked about the virtues of American draught, mentioning a few brands. The manufacturer hadn't heard of them...
...often as not, the New Woman was a masculine fantasy-Greta Garbo as a Soviet virago, titillatingly mannish yet secretly craving French perfume and Melvyn Douglas. Such, at least, was popular mythology-women, even in their supposed emancipation, have often been, as it were, prisoners of the male imagination. Always there was the secret, insistent vibration of sex: rebellion ends when Rhett Butler kicks down the door...
...artists came and went, but the two women remained inseparable. Let Miss Stein's mannish and serene face appear at a café, and there beside her was sure to be found the birdlike Miss Toklas, with her large, darting eyes and determined mouth. The relationship between the two women lasted for more than 39 years, until Miss Stein succumbed to cancer in 1946. Last week, 20 years after the loss of her devoted friend, death came in Paris to Alice Boyd Toklas...
What makes her success even more remarkable is that Margaret Sanger was no tough-talking, mannish feminist. Even when she wore severely tailored suits to appear more formidable, she could not conceal her obvious femininity. She was a radiant, vivacious redhead, scarcely 5 ft. tall, who left scores of suitors in her wake...