If you miss the old -
school machismo of»70s Westerns but enjoy modern serialized storytelling, this might just be the perfect show for you.
Du Pont doesn't just want to use Mark to fulfil his own dreams of wrestling superstardom, which his slight frame makes unlikely, but wants to shape Tatum's beefcake into the living embodiment of his own bizarre conceptions of old -
school machismo and honour, exactly the kind of rough and tumble values Dupont feels can be used to restore the United States to glory and global respect.
Not exact matches
Our «sleep
machismo,» says Charles Czeisler, director of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical
School, «glorifies sleeplessness in the way we once glorified people who could hold their liquor.»
At its core, this is an observational comedy about the contrast between old
school and contemporary fatherhood —
machismo vs emotionally open.
But it's the soaring central love story that makes the film sing: this is an old -
school romance, all lingering glances and bold declarations, petticoats, pouting and heaving
machismo.
One could also argue that there was a bit of the
machismo for which the New York
School is renowned at work in the creation of all - black paintings (1).
Of course, Judy Chicago's is an iconic name in the rapidly shifting art history of the second half of the twentieth century, as it moved from the rowdy
machismo of the New York
School to Donald Judd and company's coolly masculine Minimalism.
The emotion, the materials, the grand scale... The stories of de Kooning, Pollock and Rothko hanging out at Cedar Tavern haunted me while I was studying at the New York Studio
School on 8th St. Ultimately, though I think some of them took themselves too seriously and the massive scale was so tied up in
machismo which was a turn - off.
Upon reflection, I suspect that there are other factors that explain this sort of antagonistic approach, including tradition — «this is the way we've always done it» — and a sort of old
school lawyerly
machismo that views willingness to negotiate as a sign of weakness.