Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...changes come as Playboy attempts to revive a beleaguered business. Today there are only a dozen Playboy clubs, down from 22 in the mid-1960s. The clubs prosper mainly in smaller towns, including Buffalo and Des Moines, where martinis and ogling are still in style...
...scenario for the opening scene of Rambo: First Blood Part III. The pure fighting machine, as he is known, is in Buffalo on a special mission. But he gets lost downtown and strides into the City Court Building for directions. Bare- chested, with a sweaty bandanna around his head and what looks like an AK-47 rifle in hand, Rambo strikes terror in all who see him. A police alert goes out. Dozens of officers search the courthouse corridors. One policeman, Gerald Baetzhold, draws his revolver, trips and shoots himself in the foot. Our hero, unaware of the chaos...
...towns like Oak Hills, Ohio. Under attack in Madison, W. Va., and Peoria, Ill., are books of sexual counsel, including Changing Bodies, Changing Lives and A Way of Love, A Way of Life, as well as such popular Judy Blume novels for teenagers as Forever and Deenie. In Buffalo, the Protestant right is allied with conservative Catholics in opposing the so-called Epic program in area grade schools. This parent-and- teacher guidance course is aimed at stemming alcoholism, child abuse and teen pregnancy, but foes say it probes too deeply into the privacy of children and teaches youngsters that...
...Reaganism, the battle between the mainstream of the party establishment and the activists of the New Right. Some Republican strategists even believe that the race will turn into a "cultural civil war," pitting the blue-blooded Bush, 61, a preppie Yalie, against the red-blooded Kemp, 49, the onetime Buffalo Bills quarterback with the gravelly voice...
...Dove, Texas, is a one-tart town and so quiet you can hear the lady's bedsprings a block away. For those with a thirst, there is the Dry Bean saloon, where customers pass time whittling the edges off the tables. It is the late 19th century. Pyramids of buffalo bones rise on the prairie, the red man is down to his last can of war paint, and a couple of old Texas Rangers have seen the future, and it works without them...