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...film features Hutton as a modern-day Robin Hood bent on redeeming the good name and reputation of his brother Terry (Robert Urich). A likeable if marginally nutse firefighter. Terry is injured while combatting a fire during his off-duty hours. Because he was slightly inebriated at the time, the city deprives him of his pension and disability payment, now sorely needed to cover escalating medical bills. Jimmy, whose sole occupation appears to be shooting baskets and slouching around the streets of Brooklyn, takes it upon himself to fight the entire municipal administration...
...most wanted by drug-enforcement officials in Bolivia. Yet to some of his countrymen, Roberto Suarez Gomez, 53, sometimes known as the King of Cocaine, is a folk hero, portraying himself as a modern Robin Hood to Bolivians disillusioned by years of official corruption. In their book, Bolivia: Coca Cocaina, Authors Amado Canelas Orellana and Juan Carlos Canelas Zannier say that Suarez's popularity springs from the fact that his wealth originated "in the depravity of the Yanquis (drug abuse in the U.S.) and not in the robbing of the coffers of the state...
...there is a question of aesthetics: the American taste may be broadening, but many people still recoil from an unattractive name. So a vocabulary of euphemisms for Cinderella trash fish surfaces. Dogfish becomes grayfish or salmon shark. For opakapaka, try Hawaiian pink snapper. Blowfish are sold as sea robin or sea squab. The huge, shapeless monkfish fetches a , higher price under its French name, lotte...
Lendt was forced into a first set tiebreaker before eliminating John Sadri, 7-6, 8-0. Navratilova ripped off the first nine games enroute to a 50 minute, 6-0, 6-3 victory over Robin White on the hardcourts at Laver's International Tennis Resort...
...Robin A. Fisher Rochester