Word: studly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about the Bruins? Three straight one-goal games. What they need is a new stud up front, someone who really knows how to score. Do you think Wilt Chamberlain can skate...
...Village People were created in New York City's gay club scene; all their members, except for the lead singer (Policeman), were homosexual. "Macho Man" was written to parody the stereotypical '70s stud. But the image was accepted in straight bars all across the country and what had been a intended as a satire of the straight man became the refrain of the stud...
...Make sure you get the earring," he grins, turning his head to accentuate the diamond stud in his left ear. "I'm a cool president...
Arquette, in great shape these days, radiates the strain of a desperate coquette. Anderson, with all the charisma of the guys you knew back in shop class, is an ideal stud-schlemiel. But this is Lithgow's spotlight. His shambling gait and open shirt give him the look of Disney's Brer Bear. But Mills is a slyer oaf, muttering obscenities and worn wisdom, capable of evil . and love; Lithgow's dilapidated face tells you both are curses. He knows that noir is a chase with death at the end, and he makes it a hell of a ride...
...voice heard here, and in related stories about boxing and war, is so strong and clear that it is hard to imagine the author finding another as effective. A couple of successful experiments don't entirely settle the matter. One sketches a stud who, though he senses dimly that he may be missing something, resolutely avoids emotional entanglements with women. The other takes the familiar testosterone ride, but from the point of view of a woman who has as a lover a deep-sea diver and then, when he dies, a fighter pilot. A few more open windows are needed...