Word: rambo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pudding Theatricals have invited Stallone to Cambridge to pay him homage as their 1986 Man of the Year. Stallone has "strengthened the bond between himself and the American public," the Theatricals press release reads, "introducing yet another solid and unforgettable character to American cinema." Unforgettable or unforgiveable, Stallone's Rambo flashes across our big screen culture--a modern-day excuse for a Hercules...
...America what Rambo's all about anyway? Strong-armed (not strong-minded) men (no women please) showing foreigners (dark-skinned commies to the head of the line) what this nation stands for. Truth, justice, fairness...
Theatricals President Leonard W. Dick '86 called Stallone "the biggest name in entertainment this year." Stallone is the biggest--about that there can be no question. Rambo and Rocky were blockbusters. But biggest isn't best. Stallone's latest two films, while they may have drawn droves, offend with their blood-simple solutions...
...Rambo delivers the conclusive cultural death blow, once more reducing to cliche the well-worn notion that violence on TV and in the movie theatre is bad for kids. Sly's Rambo is a bull in the china shop of a young child's mind. Naturally, toy stores are packed with Rambo toys. In the spring, Coleco will release its Rambo product line, coinciding nicely with the premiere of the Rambo Saturday morning cartoon series. The big screen, it seems, is only the beginning...
...Rambo at Harvard. In the arts at Harvard. Harvard as a cultural sanction for Rambo mercilessly outdoes anything that Stallone's Hollywood imagination could have come up with. Rambo, and whatever he/it means for America could never be bigger than he is now--projected on the Veritas screen...