Word: robert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Middlesex County Chief Deputy Sheriff Robert Tobin and about 25 policemen arrived at the frame houses on North Harvard Street, broke locks off the doors, moved the furniture of these four elderly families into moving vans, and boarded up the doors with plywood. The residents, who had received 30-day eviction notices on September 11, said that they had not been told that the police would be coming yesterday, and most were away from home...
General Francisco Pizarro (Robert Shaw) was, the way Screenwriter Philip Yordan tells it, obsessed by his own bastardy. As in the case of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, the burden of his illegitimacy weighed so heavily that it drove him to deeds of improbable and even reckless heroism. In the bizarre personage of King Atahuallpa (Christopher Plummer) Pizarro encounters a man of his own kind, an implacable and almost superhuman force. Atahuallpa gives short shrift to the rabid Catholic missionaries in Pizarro's party and, looking into the explorer's eyes, says tellingly: "Their...
Still, the proceedings-adapted from Peter Shaffer's opulent play-are well managed by Director Irving Lerner in a style that might be called Eisenstein modern, and devotees of the Hollywood spectacular will cherish the bravado of the two leading actors. Robert Shaw bellows and glowers in his ornate armor like a psyched-up Errol Flynn. Christopher Plummer, in cloak, loincloth, gold necklaces and flowing hair, looks like the lead singer of a particularly exotic rock group, and his attempts at a Peruvian dialect occasionally make him sound like one. His performance is unabashed camp, consisting about equally...
...take advantage of this flexibility, six Harvard scientists decide each observation schedule on a day-to-day basis. The six include Robert W. Noyes, lecturer on Astronomy, and Andrea K. Dupree and George L. Withbroe, Research Fellows at the Observatory, as well as Huber, Parkinson, and Reeves. One of the six, called the "duty scientist," is on 24-hour call each day to care for OSO, and the group meets every day at noon to discuss OSO's latest result...
...most disappointing aspect of the movie is that it avoids dealing with the tragedy and passes over distasteful episodes. In the book by Robert Crichton an American lands in the village after jumping from Odessa Darling, a B-24. He jumps out of disgust at the bombing of a village of civilians by the pilot of Odessa Darling, who attacks in order to get rid of his bombs before returning to base. Perhaps Kramer thought this episode would ruin our fun by reminding us of Vietnam. I think it is vital to giving the book its depth. Kramer leaves...