Word: robin
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Examing the phenomenon of alien encounters, "E. T. and Friends Magical Movie Visitors," features film clips from several science fiction films, and interviews with earthlings who claim to have met extra-terrestrials. Robin Williams, himself the former alien of "Mork and Mindy" fame, hosts the hour-long show. Joining E. T. and Williams are a squad of Coneheads from the original "Saturday Night Live," as well as other weird-lookers from the galaxy of cancelled TV series...
...Robin Schmidt, University vice president for government and community affairs, said yesterday that a concern for the rights of local residents was another major factor in Harvard's decision. "There was very strong opposition from the Allston-Brighton community," Schmidt explained...
...many ways Frankfurter is pretty much of a paradigm to students here--he is held up as an example of an excellent scholar by professors that knew him and professors that studied under him," said Robin L. Little, a first-year law student. "I would sort of like to find out who he was," Little added...
...this time no specific proposals have been approved by Dean Fox [dean of the College] and no committee exists to consider radical alterations in our existing policy," stated Vice President Robin Schmidt in a letter to Assistant City Manager for Community Development Kathy Spiegelman...
Some especially noxious examples: Tennessee Republican Robin Beard ran a TV commercial in which a Fidel Castro look-alike delightedly lit a cigar with a $100 bill and intoned: "Muchissimas gracias, Senor Sasser." The false implication was that Beard's opponent, Democratic Senator Jim Sasser, had voted for foreign aid appropriations that had somehow benefited Communist Cuba. In California, Republican Peter Cost, a candidate for the state assembly, showed a TV spot in which three actors dressed up to look like especially vicious convicts sat around in a jail cell and praised Cost's opponent, Democrat Sam Farr...