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...addition. The movie begins with Rocky as a complacent and worshipped world champion; he lives in a mansion, drives a Model T around his grounds, and appears as a spokesman for American Express. Into this halycon world enters Clubber Lang (Mr. T), an enormous fighter who sports a mohawk. While Balboa runs around in designer suits, Lang really runs, getting in increasingly better shape as he climbs the boxing world's challenge ladder. Rocky agrees to fight Lang, taking on his former rival Apollo Creed as coach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down for the Count | 5/28/1982 | See Source »

Only one race was more unique in England two years ago. For Chapus--the Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard meet. A teamate, Lance Miller, was walking around with a mohawk haircut. "What a sight--the Scottish people at the meet nearly swallowed their bagpipes when they saw that," he recalls...

Author: By Peter G. Wilcox, | Title: Mark Chapus: A Convert to Track | 6/3/1981 | See Source »

DIED. Jay Silverheels, 62, the bass-voiced Mohawk Indian who played the masked man's sidekick Tonto after The Lone Ranger series moved from radio to TV in 1949; of complications from pneumonia; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Born on a reservation in Canada, Silverheels spurred his horse Scout through all 221 of the video episodes made before filming stopped in 1957, helping his Kemo Sabe (commonly translated as "faithful friend") bring law-and-order to the early West. Silverheels never lost his love for horses (he took up harness racing at 56) or for the show, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 17, 1980 | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...Utica & Mohawk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boycott Stevens | 4/19/1978 | See Source »

...comic turns in the novel, once commiserating with her nephew on the curse of having been born an Aldrich: "That made you the inher itor of a long-established tradition of rascalry, thievery, sexual perversion, treason, sedition, blasphemy and apparently, in my case, gratuitous witchcraft." There are, preposterously, several Mohawk Indians involved in the plot, one of whom is named Sybaritic Hawk. Student demonstrations of the late '60s, ecological struggles, communes, civil rights trials, street life among urban porn establish ments, all have been dragged, entertainingly, into The Lady from Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutual Loathing | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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