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...MOST appalling story in this volume is entitled "Hilda and Rango." Hilda is a young woman in Paris who is attracted to a Hemingway-esque American writer. When she gets into bed with him, she finds that he is really rather retiring and prefers her to be the aggressor. They become lovers and she assumes the role of leader to please him. But she is not fulfilled. "She had always dreamed of having a man who would force her will, rule her sexually, lead...

Author: By Suzanna Rodell, | Title: It's Worse the Second Time | 5/3/1979 | See Source »

Then she meets Rango--an artist who lives in a gypsy cart and is big and hairy. He takes her to his wagon, where she commits the grave faux pas of reaching for his pants, which makes him angry. She questions him and he says, "You make the gesture of a whore." He caresses her for days but refuses to make love to her. "Hilda felt that the female in her was being taught to submit to the male, to obey his wishes. She felt that he was still punishing her for the gesture she had made..." Finally...

Author: By Suzanna Rodell, | Title: It's Worse the Second Time | 5/3/1979 | See Source »

...RANGO (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). The Lone Ranger reborn and played for laughs, with Tim Conway as a square Texas lawman and Guy Marks as his faithful Indian scout, Pink Cloud. In this episode, Rango is mistaken for an outlaw by a gang of cutthroats who promptly elect him their leader and take him on a series of holdups. Premi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 13, 1967 | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...Rango, when you kiss me the barge rocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love on a Barge | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

Footloose Dancer Djuna was not the only one who was enthralled by Rango the Guatemalan Indian. Paris nightclub patrons who heard his songs "drank from his voice and his guitar." But it was Djuna who rented a barge on the Seine for him. There, while Djuna cried, "You are the God of Fire," and Rango kissed her feet, they "gave each other their many selves, avoiding only the more recent ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love on a Barge | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

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