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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buffalo: Ruckus Over a Rambo-Gram | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Already Jockeying for Position | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It's a Long, Long Tale Awinding Lonesome Dove | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...Scenes From American Life, gives the feeling that the wrong life is being staged. Despite the confusing script, quite a few scenes are very entertaining and the acting in sometimes excellent. The American life that the play presents is the life of the upper-class WASP, specifically those in Buffalo...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: A Hive of WASPS | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

...series of short takes from life among Buffalo's blue-blooded are strung together in what seems an almost random order. The play is certainly not bound by any timeline as it jumps from World War II to 1990 to the 1960's without so much as a CBS Newsbreak...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: A Hive of WASPS | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

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