Word: rambomania
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...magazine industry, estimates that Soldier of Fortune's revenues dipped from $7.5 million in 1983 to $6.9 million last year, but Brown is confident enough to have launched two new magazines, Guns & Action and Combat Weapons, in the past year. He views the country's recent outbreak of Rambomania as proof that the climate is improving for his brand of journalism. Even though Soldier of Fortune is always certain to draw hoots of disapproval, the Colonel is not the kind to care. Ambling through the office in faded jeans and T shirt, cracking jokes with editors, squirting streams of chewing...
...Viet Nam vet who takes issue with the fad of Rambomania. It glorifies all I have been trying to forget for the past 15 years. The destruction of an ancient culture and its people has been a haunting memory for me, and I see no need to depict it in a motion picture. Chip Troiano East Hardwick, Vt. Good Morning Today...
Predictably, even the Theatricals seem to have been infected with Rambomania, squeezing the word "America" into its sentence twice. Jingo, jingo...
...Rambomania is spreading faster than the fire storms set by the hero's explosive warheads. Hollywood megahits of summers past have flooded the market with such whimsical souvenirs as furry Gremlins and cuddly E.T.s. This year stores are stocking up with war paraphernalia: a $150 replica of Rambo's high-tech bow and arrow, Rambo knives and an assortment of toy guns, including a semiautomatic job that squirts a stream of water 10 ft. Youngsters will soon be able to pop Rambo vitamins, and New Yorkers can send a Rambogram, in which a Stallone look-alike will deliver a birthday...
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