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Obviously the sight of this marvelous physical specimen cavorting through the jungles in a series of brutally effective, strikingly photographed action scenes is a big part of the movie's appeal, regardless of ideology. Rambo has echoes of half a dozen movie heroes of old, from Tarzan to Shane, and his Vietnamese and Soviet foes are updated versions of the malevolent Japanese and Germans from World War II films. The cheers that erupt in the theater as the body count soars are coming largely from young moviegoers whose only previous encounter with Viet Nam may have been a question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Outbreak of Rambomania | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...hilarious" and published it. The low-selling Almanac of American Letters was issued because the publisher found its collage of literary trivia irresistible. (Items: Horatio Alger was unfit for service in the Union Army. The original title of Death of a Salesman was The Inside of His Head. Tarzan does not live in sin, he was married to Jane by her father, a minister. Poet Robert Lowell twice tried to enlist in the armed forces; both times he was rejected. By the time he was called up, Lowell had become a conscientious objector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Publishing Rises in the West | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

Equally disastrous is this year's greenhouse look advocated supposed to resemble a refugee Technicolor Tarzan set in flower print fabrics that will attract every lovesick bee a five mile radius Norma Kaman's dresses and boxers almost manage to redeem the look, but' all just short...

Author: By Charles M. Sneid, | Title: Fun, Sun and Dumb--This Spring's New Looks | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

Rowdy Gaines, Olympic gold medal swimmer, on his movie- acting ambitions: "I would love to be Tarzan, but it would depend on who Jane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Mar. 11, 1985 | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...left. The rough-and-ready Yugoslavs squelched U.S. hopes in the final game when they tied the Americans 5-5 but won the championship because they had outscored their opponents by a wider margin. The U.S. silver was only the country's third medal since a pre-Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller led a U.S. team to a bronze in 1924. Said a disappointed Coach Monte Nitzkowski, who had been working with the team for seven years: "Those kids didn't have silver in their eyes. It was gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: A SPRAY OF OTHER EVENTS | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

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