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Word: robbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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ONCE UPON a time, there was a cinematic fairy tale. A fairy tale of true love conquering all. A tale in which the good survive and the bad are conquered and in which characters ride off into the sunset. Such is the saga of The Princess Bride, Rob Reiner's entry into the fantasy genre. It is less than fantastic...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Refried Bride | 10/16/1987 | See Source »

Princeton did not let up, as fullback Jerry Santillo ran four yards for a second-quarter score to give Princeton a 28-0 halftime lead. Judd scored the final Tiger touchdown on an eight-yd. run late in the third quarter, while placekicker Rob Goodwin kicked a 41-yd. field goal to close out the Princeton scoring...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: It's a Record! Lions Drop 35th Straight | 10/13/1987 | See Source »

...Borscht Belt raconteur. But on the page, Goldman's wordplay seemed too much of a jape. It needed the expanse of cinema -- where on the late show Errol Flynn and Gunga Din are still storybook young -- to revive the poetry of fable. Now, 14 years later, he and Rob Reiner have got it smashingly right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Errol Flynn Meets Gunga Din THE PRINCESS BRIDE | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...action starts in 1970 when heavily armed urban guerrillas rob a Brink's armored truck at a Massachusetts shopping mall. Two years later the merry band empties a Wells Fargo van in the same general area. "We're not dealing here & with a group of retards, my friends," says Inspector John D. Richards of the state police. "These are sharp minds we've got on our hands, making these withdrawals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ends And Means OUTLAWS | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

Within a year after joining the gang, Hagan was drinking, fighting and smoking PCP with the best of the home boys. Eager to please the older gang members, he became the fearless errand boy, quickly learning to rob and steal and priding himself on his growing reputation as a "crazy." He says: "I was like a hardhead. The more my parents told me to stay away from gangs, the more I wanted to hang with them." He has his own ideas about parenthood: "If I had a son, I would give him a choice: either he can go to school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life And Death With the Gangs | 8/24/1987 | See Source »

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