Word: buffalo
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...lost to Niagara 95-69 and Long Island 78-67 at the Queen City Tournament in Buffalo, and its problems appear to be just beginning
...historical ironies that stem from America's polyracial composition. Thus, for example, the same government that congratulated itself for passing the 13th and 14th Amendments--in the provisions of which Indians were expressly excluded--was simultaneously planning and perpetrating genocide against the American Indian. Moreover, black soldiers, called "Buffalo Soldiers" by the Indians, were helping to carry out those genocidal intentions. Each opening chronology is followed by a quotation or a series of quotations from Indians who will figure in the history covered by the chapter. These quotes, the words of men commonly portrayed as possessing a verbal dexterity restricted...
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...masculine role-playing, western violence, and the sterility of bourgeois life, are all either sketched in, or driven home with a sledgehammer. Bless the Beasts and Children is so lacking in intellect, or psychological veracity, that its heavy allegory of six middle-class youngsters who try to save 70 buffalo from an annual sport-slaughter becomes, in effect, only a shaggy-bull story. Columbia execs must be worried: the film has, in general, been drubbed, and they've given it a big Boston build-up. They're also clever: the film cost a cheap $840,000 to make...
...master the techniques of survival and killing. There is a larger American lesson in him. Mccabe wound up, 27 days after he arrived in Viet Nam, sitting on an armored personnel carrier and calling down artillery to blow apart a Vietnamese village-"women, children, dogs, huts, rice, water buffalo, the whole thing"-because someone had fired a single sniper round from that general direction...