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What few are likely to find amusing is Rambo III's story line. For a novelty, the superhero this time is discovered not aroil but tranquil, living in a Buddhist monastery in Thailand. Sure, he occasionally indulges in the local sport of stick fighting to keep in trim, but mostly he enjoys the silence and the sunsets. When his mentor and only friend, Colonel Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna), is captured by a particularly disagreeable Soviet officer while trying to aid the Afghan rebels, Rambo is recalled to primitive business as usual. There are, of course, low cunning, high explosives...
...such manifestations as rock 'n' roll, through which First Cousin and Childhood Chum Jerry Lee Lewis had won fame. Pornography, another pet target, constituted a form of "addiction," he proclaimed. Those who sell it "represent the worst our great nation has to offer, the scum on an otherwise tranquil pond...
...Berlin Document Center, housed in deceptively tranquil white cottages in the Zehlendorf district of West Berlin, is home to 30 million official Nazi files, including the complete records of the murderous SS. The papers are ! stored in underground passages, bunkers and labyrinths sealed with steel doors...
John Morris will never forget the day four years ago when two bulldozers arrived in his tranquil West Los Angeles neighborhood. The 38-year-old accountant was already harboring doubts about life in the city. It takes him an hour to drive a mere 15 miles to work on the packed freeways, and he no longer wears contact lenses because the smog stings his eyes. Fear of toxic chemicals keeps him from setting foot in nearby Santa Monica...
...Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. When academia has lost its charms and the conversation of your peers palls, retire and amuse yourself in the the Fogg's quiet and tranquil halls. Then you can return to your house secure in the knowledge that you have done your bit for culture at Harvard...