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Word: robin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bond between Louis and Fernand is accorded the same frankness and sensitivity as the heterosexual union with Alexa. The erotic interplay between the two men lays to rest the hoary cinematic cliche that the sight of two men kissing repulses women. Serreau's skill as director and Jean--Francois Robin's delicate photography present the embrace with a warm dignity...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Short Circuits in the Social Order | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...around 1910 and lived quietly with relatives out West. Jesse James stirred such a spirited buzzard of legend and myth that, after he was shot dead, subsequent generations were persuaded by transparent impostors that the St. Joe desperado was, yessir, still alive. Questions about James (Was he a Robin Hood or mere hood?) will long stay alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Some Cases Never Die, or Even Fade | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...formal round-robin league play, however, the Tigers dropped to second after three straight years in first place as Columbia finished with a .586 winning percentage to Princeton's .575. Harvard finished third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lions and Tigers Leading the Pack In Ivy Sports Safari | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

...season are a mostly flavorless assortment of retreads, spin-offs and ripoffs; there are no innovative programs and few fresh faces in sight. Though the past few years were not much better, they did at least offer such novel phenomena as Soap, Lifeline, Suzanne Somers and Robin Williams. The 1979-80 network lineup is so tame that it even lacks that saving spice of commercial television -triumphantly bad taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: 1 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

E.D.T.) People who go to the improvisational comedy clubs in New York City and Los Angeles know that Jimmy Brogan is probably the best comic to hit that circuit since Robin Williams. ABC wisely signed him up, only to cast him in this tired Mork & Mindy retread about an angel who moves to earth. Unlike the manic Williams, who makes a guest appearance in Blue's first episode, Brogan is a quiet, reflective comedian. In his stand-up act he functions as a bemused straight man, playing off the audience, and does not deliver a set routine. ABC would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The 1979-80 Season: 1 | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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