Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Linda Flynn...
...more innocent times-which may roughly be reckoned from the birth of Homer to the death of Errol Flynn-all boys (and the occasional girl with rapier envy) turned to martial romance for a chauvinized vision of what they would be when they grew up. Despite the fact that Underdog and Bionic Woman now mold the taste of young audiences, Sabatini may be in for a revival. Ballantine Books has reprinted in paperback 100,000 copies each of so-so Sabatini (The Black Swan, Captain Blood Returns, Mistress Wilding). Three examples of super-Sabatini (The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, Bellarion...
...royal witches of the Bene Gesserit. Dune follows Paul Atreides as he becomes leader of the Fremen, wins control of the addictive spice-drug melange, which gives longevity and prescient vision to its users and is only found on Arrakis, and wins an intergalactic empire, all in best Errol Flynn fashion. But it also accurately and believably details the training and reserve one must acquire to become an emperor and the political intrigues one must initiate to remain one. In 1975 it was voted as the best science fiction novel of all time by the readers of Locust...
...attorney and an associate of both Adamson and Ned Warren, the so-called "Godfather" of Arizona land fraud schemes. Roberts quickly stepped forth with an alibi for Adamson, claiming that the two were together in Roberts' office moments before the explosion that maimed Bolles. Roberts' attorney, John Flynn, concedes that "the circumstances could cause one to wonder what the hell is going...
...comic mugging. Scott Meadow turns in a sharply defined performance as Wilfred Shadbolt, the "assistant tormentor" who eventually wins Phoebe's hand (but not her heart). A typical Gilbert and Sullivan "light heavy," Meadow's Wilfred is too ridiculously self-important and gullible to be really threatening. Carol Flynn also has a few funny moments as awesome Dame Carruthers, responding rapturously to Sgt. Meryll's pained wooing...