Word: robin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this sickness hits you, you die in one week. Of course we are all afraid." And around the world, but especially in the U.S., people sensitized to Ebola's horrors by a spate of books and movies-Richard Preston's chilling best seller The Hot Zone; the TV movie Robin Cook's 'Virus'; the film Outbreak, starring Dustin Hoffman-wondered nervously whether the disease would spread out of Africa...
Most Exotic Accent: A tie, between the obscure one used by Robin Williams as an obstetrician in Nine Months and the Italianate vocalizing of Meryl Streep as the lonely wife romanced by Clint Eastwood in The Bridges of Madison County...
...Crimson's only two losses against New England competition this season came at the hands of Tufts, which is the only other New England school to make it to the nationals. Twelve teams in all go to the nationals, which is a round-robin tournament in which the team with the best cumulative score (in terms of the lowest finish) taking the title...
...prison, is dramatized only briefly at the end of the film. During the course of the story, though, he is depicted as a belligerent suitor who chases young women down dark streets and yet, incongruously, is so shy that he hangs up the phone the first time he calls Robin Givens (Kristen Wilson), his future wife, to ask her out on a date. Fallen heroes always retain a certain mystery, but they needn't be this inscrutable...
...prosecution in theO.J. Simpson trialtoday began laying the groundwork for the crucial DNA testimony in the case that may establish thetrail of bloodtying Simpson to the crime scene. Dr. Robin Cotton, director of the nation's largest independent DNA forensic laboratory, gave jurors whatTIME Los Angeles correspondent James Willwerthcalls "a very user-friendly lesson on what DNA is and how DNA testing is done." Their purpose, says Willwerth, is "to demonstrate the DNA testing is science rather than voodoo," as the defense will assert...