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According to students, La Ruche attracts a certain type of Harvard affiliate. "My social studies tutor has office hours there," says a Winthrop House sophomore. "It's where the beret crowd hangs...

Author: By Laura S. Kohl, | Title: Plenty of Room at the Inn: Harvard Square's Least Popular Eating Joints | 11/8/1985 | See Source »

Rambo is, of course, Sylvester Stallone's latest cinematic creation, a brooding Viet Nam veteran who unleashes destruction in the summer's first blockbuster hit, Rambo: First Blood Part II. In this sequel to Stallone's 1982 film First Blood, a crack veteran of the Green Beret Special Forces is sent back to Viet Nam to search for U.S. prisoners of war, only to be abandoned in the jungle and forced to guerrilla-fight his way out. In its first 23 days of release, Rambo, which cost $27 million to produce, has grossed a phenomenal $75.8 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Outbreak of Rambomania | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...last five months." He chuckled. "Neither one was carrying hazardous chemicals," he said, chuckling again. "But I think our nine lives are up," he finished, chuckling still more heartily. The Rev. Mr. Page told a joke about the Johnstown flood more than once. James Stinson, a former Green Beret, now an antiterrorism consultant, pressed a button hooked to a slide projector. "I hope this doesn't detonate anything," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Indiana: Poised for Catastrophe | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

Seale wore a beret and a scowl when he and Huey Newton formed the Black Panthers in Oakland in 1966. His disruptions aroused combative Judge Julius Hoffman to have him shackled to a chair and gagged during the Chicago Seven trial. Today he lives in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, attends Temple University and directs a youth training program. "I want to contribute to social change by being the last word behind a nonprofit organization," says Seale, 48. Where would the money come from? Believe it or not, from a cookbook, Barbecuing with Bobby, and possibly a barbecue video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: New Roles for an Old Cast | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...costuming sparse. Ski hats and overcoats are enough to dress all six as victims of Reagan-era policies. "We wear our characters lightly and dress them lightly," says Co-Founder Bernard Sahlins. "Put on a pair of glasses and you've got a businessman." Put on a beret, as Troupe Member Richard Kind does later, and you have Jean-Paul Sartre, unpleasantly surprised to discover that there is an afterlife and that God, played by Mike Hagerty, is a sort of hearty camp counselor. Sartre: It's not what I expected. God: What did you expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Still Crazy After All These Years | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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