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...story-line is convoluted, in typical Gilbert and Sullivan fashion. Rose Maybud (Cathy Weary), a village flower much preoccupied with etiquette, loves young Robin Oakapple (Mark Clements), who possesses "the manners of a marquis and the morals of a Methodist." Robin loves Rose, too, but he harbors a terrible secret: he is masquerading as a farmer to avoid acknowledging his position as the 22nd baronet of Murgatroyd. His title carries with it some rather grim duties: the baronet must commit a crime every day, or die in torment at the hands of his ancestors. This curse makes life troublesome...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Bloody Good G&S | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...almost hurried, although Bonn tries to lessen the perfunctory note with sensitive staging. Hannah's prominent grief, for example, nicely mitigates the atmosphere of mechanical, happily-ever-after celebration. Nevertheless, the production could have punched or prolonged the moment--brought in the chorus, perhaps, to ooh and ah as Robin explains how he's "broken" the curse...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Bloody Good G&S | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson upped their lead to 5-2 early in the second period thanks to scores by Ellen Seidler and Mleczko. Bruins Robin Beil and Mercedes Bosch soon dispelled that advantage, though, driving home a goal each...

Author: By Keith Salkowski, | Title: Women Drop Lax to Brown; Romp in Tennis, 8-1 | 4/26/1978 | See Source »

...cannot believe Robin Gibb has the audacity to compare the Bee Gees to the Beatles. The Bee Gees' music consists only of pre-teen whining, while the Beatles are thought of as modern-day Mozarts. That is quite a difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1978 | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

Anyone watching the popular iconography has been able to see the change. In movies, it may have started two years ago in Robin and Marian; at 46, Audrey Hepburn played an exquisite and sexy Marian to Sean Connery's aging Robin Hood. This year, in An Unmarried Woman, Actress Jill Clayburgh portrays a wonderful 37-year-old whose husband leaves her for a much younger woman; a character in the movie accurately remarks that the husband was crazy to make the exchange. After a decade of tending barricades, Jane Fonda, now 40, has emerged as a fascinating actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: In Praise of Older Women | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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