Word: robin
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Somehow the authors get us to swallow this nonsense. Floyd and Birdwell team up, naturally, and become regional Robin Hoods. There isn't much to the story -- flivvers and floozies, irate wives and an occasional perforated lawman, plus a misty death scene for each of the heroes. The novel's true subject, to the lighthearted extent that it has one, is mythology itself. With the headline-hungry FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover promoting Floyd to No. 2 and then No. 1 on his new invention, the Most Wanted List, Charley's life becomes a legend before he is finished living...
...Bousquette (Assistant Editors) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...Bousquette (Assistant Editors) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...past. Back in Sherwood Forest, taking the King's deer was a capital offense. Today illegal hunters come from all walks: studies identified many of the waterfowl poachers in Wisconsin as white-collar executives, while Missouri's deer poachers are largely unemployed workers. Some claim to be modern-day Robin Hoods, engaged in libertarian protest against Big Government. This amuses the rangers. The poachers' major motivation, says Grosz, is "ego and greed...
...Bousquette (Assistant Editors) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...