Word: rambo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There are no guarantees in acting," she said. "Much of acting is luck. Actors have to go by the whims of the public. Take those `Rambo-Commando' type movies for example. You often hear of those `hot' actors who are here today, and gone tomorrow...
...crowd of people was a crowd of Vietnam vets protesting Rambo, and the SWAT team, I suppose, was there in case things got out of hand, which things showed no signs of doing. I stopped for a moment, although ankle-deep in slush, to assess the situation. At the time, it really seemed to me that these people must have something better to do on such a rainy night than to protest a movie. The demonstrators waved their signs. From an upper window in the Hasty Pudding building, three students yelled "Rocky, Rocky, Rocky" at them...
...that was when the situation began to seem almost surreal to me. It occurred to me that these students were choosing fiction over life, a well-muscled Rocky-Rambo as hero, instead of the motley reality of the Vietnam experience that was parading below their windows. Rambo was a hero--tough, honorable, simple, yet sensitive, devoted to a cause, and a cause that was right. You could root for Rambo. How could these students not prefer him over real Vietnam vets--all-too-real reminders of the ambiguous nature not only of the Vietnam War, but of human beings...
...engaged to be married: Chrysler le Baron (Erick Neher) and Ethel Alcohol (George Zlupko). Chrysler, to put it mildly, is a disappointment to his amazon mother. And even his father gets exasperated with his poetry spouting and inability to dig warfare: "Chrysler, why can't you be more like Rambo?" Ethel's not much help. She's busy with her rather healthy appetitite...
...developed an oppressive, Orwellian ideology, but preaches only anti-communism. "Chile progresses in peace and order" was the first and last slogan we were to see in the country. Chilean propaganda is not propagated in manifestos and youth groups but through anaesthetic state-controlled television and movie imports like Rambo...