Word: rangers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through the course of the play, Tam and his Japanese sidekick, "Blackjap" Kenji (Edward Park), confront the disappointing reality behind their romantic conceptions of both white and Black America. In a comically surreal dream sequence their childhood hero, the Lone Ranger, is exposed as a heroine-addicted, racist fraud. Their long-awaited meeting with Ovaltine's Black trainer, Charley Popcorn, proves disillusioning as well--offended by their Black mannerisms, the old man dismisses the duo as a pair of insane "yellow negroes...
...Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell will introduce a bill this month that would give ROTC- like tuition assistance to students doing community service. Thanks, say some, but no thanks. "Volunteerism should be selfless," explains M. Richard Rose, president of Rochester Institute of Technology. "Ideally you should be like the Lone Ranger. You do a good deed, then you leave a silver bullet and move...
...chief controversy in the case, however, concerned the methods of the fabled Texas Rangers. The defense presented lawmen from around the country who testified that the Rangers ignored contrary evidence and who suggested there was undue Ranger pressure to keep Lucas confessing. Ridiculous, says Ranger Captain Bob Prince, who denies that milk shakes had been offered for every new murder Lucas cleared or that he had been threatened with a return to death row if he clammed up. "Lucas did the leading, he wasn't led," Prince insists. "He is guilty -- unquestionably -- of a great number of murders...
...certain whether North is a cause or an effect, a Lone Ranger who rode out of control or a good soldier who followed orders from above. He is an unknown who emerged from the shadows into the spotlight of what quickly became the biggest Washington scandal in more than a decade and threatens to preoccupy Americans in the year to come...
...version of old-time radio," complete with scores and sounds. Chaim Potok's The Chosen (Warner), read by Eli Wallach, is augmented by news broadcasts, crowd noises and mood music; Louis L'Amour's A Trail to the West (Bantam) features hoofbeats and gunshots reminiscent of a 1940s Lone Ranger episode...