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Take the case of Marion Cobretti (Sylvester Stallone), already better known to readers of the movie ads as Cobra. A man of few grunts (and no beeps at all), he is a member of the Los Angeles police departmentment "zombie squad," which means that his specialty is wasting homicidal psychopaths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Man of Few Grunts and No Beeps Cobra | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

The generation that wanted to stay forever young is entering middle age. This year the leading edge of the Baby Boom, the 76 million Americans born in the fecund years between 1946 and 1964, reaches mid-life. Former White House Wunderkind David Stockman and Actor Sylvester Stallone (Rocky, Rambo) turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Pains At 40 | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

At Harvard today, the opposition between sports and serious student concerns is more subtle, but nonetheless real. The houses with the highest percentage of athletes tend to vote most conservatively--against the campus norm--in political opinion polls. Varsity athletes are occasionally used as bodyguards by the University administration and...

Author: By Charlest T. Kurzman, | Title: Pointing the 'Big Finger' | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

I was walking back to Widener Library through the rain on Tuesday night, when I was confronted by three television vans, a SWAT team, and a crowd of about sixty people. My first thought, having seen America Under Siege the week before, was that some kind of terrorist-hostage situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rambo Vs. Vets | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

It made me angry to hear someone 18 or 19 years old, who had never had to face either the draft or the possibility of death in a war no one really wanted to be fighting, call those vets "chickens". It made it worse, somehow, that this student was a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rambo Vs. Vets | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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