Word: robin
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What's got into moviemakers lately, that they are so enthusiastically trashing their most genteel patrons? Bob Balaban's recent comedy Parents, a kind of robin's-egg Blue Velvet, limned a '50s family, as placid and telegenic as the Andersons on Father Knows Best, that devours human flesh. Now Middle America gets a return visit from Joe Dante, guerrilla terrorist in Spielbergian suburbia. His Gremlins was a comic nightmare in which midget monsters invade a wonderful-life town and act up like the Hell's Angels in a malt shop. In The 'Burbs, the gremlins are the townspeople themselves...
North's strategy, it seems, is to threaten to disclose embarrassing secrets if the Government will not drop the trial. In the bitter words of Robin Ross, chief aide to Attorney General Thornburgh, "This great American hero is graymailing the Government. This is the guy who stood up in his Marine Corps uniform and all his medals, and now he is sticking it to the Government with an advantage ((knowledge of secrets)) he got through service to his country...
...apparent form the outset that Dartmouth had come to play, and play it did. The Big Green took a 2-0 lead into the first break behind goals by sophomore Robin Chandler and freshman Lori Jacobs...
When he eventually returned to the team last year, he captured a big five-game decision against Princeton's Roy Robin. But it was still a frustrating season because Bernheimer knew he wasn't playing up to his potential, losing several close matches to less talented players...
Neil Kinnock, the Labor Party leader, pounced on the government, accusing the Tories of "putting cash before care" and "profits before patients." Labor health spokesman Robin Cook said the proposal would "put bureaucrats in the driving seat at the expense of doctors and patients," and denounced it as a "prescription for a health service run by accountants...