Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robert W. Taylor, day manager of Tommy's Lunch, said high school students regularly steal from the top counter where desserts are kept. Tommy's Lunch is next door to Sage...
...lift. The two spent the day tooling around Dallas, ending up at a drive-in. Adams claims that Harris dropped him off at his motel around 10 p.m. Harris testified that they left the drive-in about midnight, with Adams driving Harris' stolen car. When police officer Robert Wood pulled the car over, Harris said, Adams pulled out a .22 pistol and fired five shots into the policeman. (It was later learned that Harris had previously stolen the weapon...
...Palestine, both believed to be holding Western hostages, endorsed Khomeini's threat. Islamic Jihad issued a vow to seek revenge against "all those who take part in strong and ferocious campaigns against Islam." The statement was accompanied by a Polaroid photograph of the three American hostages, Alann Steen, Robert Polhill and Jesse Turner, who were kidnaped from the campus of Beirut University College more than two years ago. But the communique made no new threats against their lives. In Bombay, 10,000 anti-Rushdie protesters rampaged through the streets until police moved in. When the rioters would not disperse...
...lighter note, Mailer said he suspected the odds against a customer suffering harm while browsing at a bookstore were close to 100,000 to 1. "Such odds, if widely promulgated," he observed, "would have brought in many prospective customers looking for the spice of a very small risk." ; Biographer Robert Massie, president of the 6,500-member Authors Guild, offered a practical suggestion: he urged writers to ask publishers to withdraw their books from chains that had removed the Rushdie novel from their shelves...
...second-rate strippers in the You Gotta Have a Gimmick number from Gypsy. While the performers dance as brilliantly as one would expect from disciples of Robbins, most can't act very well, and there is not one striking singer in the entire company. The most problematic is Robert + La Fosse, a New York City Ballet star who moves gloriously but whose facial expression seems limited to a scowl and a simpering grin. Jason Alexander, who serves as narrator and plays seven characters, has wit, charm and the requisite razzmatazz -- his parts in Forum and Fiddler were played by Zero...