Word: tonto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half, to give us a chance to get to know the kids. The idea is reminiscent of the first-of-the-year Lone Ranger shows, In Which We Learned Why he wore a mask, Why his horse was called Silver, Why he used expensive silver bullets, How he met Tonto, etc. But "Mod Squad" is, in contrast, woefully boring, displaying not a tenth of the style or the imagination of "The Lone Ranger...
...Tonto The Lone Ranger
...went under. But the press got their waterlogged copy out, which was the whole idea anyway. As the White House's Bill Moyers cracked: "The New York Times has a picture on Page One -Mrs. Johnson looks like Tom Mix, and Secretary Udall looks like Tonto...
While taking in Robert Dawson's good poems for instance, the ancient courtesan has had to choke on his bad ones as well. The "Superman" and "Donald Duck" of Dawson's Suite Picaresque neatly juxtapose their heroes with a more immediate world, and unlike "Tonto" and "Woody Woodpecker" are careful and clever, never trying to tease too many profundities at once. For the most part he avoids what most of this issue's other contributors tirelessly insist upon attempting--sloppy, rambling, and pretentious juggling with the Absolute. Instead of annihilating all his images by sudden leaps from them into windy...
...years ago (it is now a regular television feature). Striker, who sold the rights to Lone Ranger, continued to write the scripts. He turned out some 3,000 half-hour shows, all of which glorified justice, cowboy good conduct and loyalty to the Lone Ranger's Indian friend Tonto. Faithfully tuned in by uncounted millions of schoolchildren for 29 years, the ringing prologue ("From out of the West come the thundering hoofbeats . . .'') and the Lone Ranger's cry of "Hi Ho, Silver, Away!" to his great white stallion, became part of the American idiom...