Word: custers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CUSTER DIED FOR YOUR SINS by Vine Deloria. 279 pages. Macmillan...
...from being wooden, Deloria says, Indians are wildly comic. He invokes two favorite subjects of Indian mirth. One is Custer, who was found wearing "an Arrow shirt," and the other is Columbus. Indians, watching his landing, groaned, "There goes the neighborhood." Deloria cites bumper-sticker slogans: "God is Red" and "We Shall Overrun." There are other contemporary jokes, like the one about a poll which disclosed that while only 15% of the Indians wanted U.S. forces to get out of Viet Nam, 85% wanted U.S. forces to get out of America. The source of Indian humor, Deloria makes clear...
...western to end all westerns, the film has George Armstrong Custer, Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill among its characters. But they all seem tame compared with the types portrayed by Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam and Faye Dunaway. In Little Big Man, from Thomas Berger's picaresque novel, Dustin plays the hero, Jack Crabb, who survives every imaginable peril until the age of 121, which ought to put the makeup men on their mettle. The putty looms large in Balsam's role as well; he plays a sly con artist whose enraged victims relieve him at various times...
Larry Terrell dropped behind early in his match with Navy's Bob Custer at number four, but rallied to win in straight sets, 10-8, 6-4, and teamed with Butch Kawakami at third doubles for a 10-7 victory...
...CUSTER PARK, S. DAK., Black Hills Playhouse. Two old ladies from Brooklyn seduce men with wine and kill them with kindness in Arsenic and Old Lace...