Word: rambo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What we've adopted is the 'Rambo principle.' We're going to win our wars in the movies, not on the battlefield," Karnow said. While Reagan pulled the troops out of Lebanon, "Johnson would have sent a division," said Karnow...
...like IKARI Warriors in the Freshman Union," says Hally. "It's just like Rambo, plus people watch and I can put my name up." John M. Campanelli '89, who plays Lode Runner frequently, describes his favorite video sequence where "a little man runs away from other little men and has to pick up a certain amount of money bags to move to the next level. It's the consumate capitalist game...
...Matt, your Rambo tactics wouldn't work anyway. Remember, they have Stallion on their side...
...been vulnerable to the siren song of political sophistry, today's citizens who bother to think about politics at all are a toughened, cynical lot who can resist such blandishments. The political content of art has always been secondary to its crowd-pleasing appeal; the same audiences who saw Rambo two years ago the Top Gun last year are now flocking to Platoon, simply because they like a good heavy-calibre war flick...
...Hall, 49, the brother of Ohio Congressman Tony P. Hall, was arrested outside an air force base near Managua with hand-drawn maps and sketches of military installations hidden in his socks. He was promptly accused of spying. The self-styled mercenary, described by former colleagues as having a Rambo complex, claimed that he was the sole surviving member of an anti-Communist fighting force called the Phoenix Battalion...