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Shenanigans like these earned them the nicknames Batman and Robin, and may once have made fair copy. (The film was extracted from L.H. Whittemore's book about the pair's exploits in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn in the late '60s.) On screen, though, their heroics look lame. We expect our cops to be either a good deal meaner (Hackman in The French Connection, Scheider in The Seven-Ups) or at least stronger fantasy projections of unwavering strength and authority, like Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry. Greenberg and Hantz here are neither real enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Batman and Robin | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...outcome of the suit, to be filed at the Suffolk Superior Court within a month, will not affect Harvard's decision to pay Boston $300,000 in lieu of taxes next year, Robin Schmidt, assistant vice president for public affairs, said yesterday...

Author: By David N. Carvalho, | Title: Mayor White Asks State Relief From Burden of Tax-Free Land | 4/20/1974 | See Source »

Coach John Baker, in an effort to get a smoother rowing boat, made one change from last week in the starting line-up, moving Captain Connie Cervilla up to the number seven position, with Robin Lothrop going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Radcliffe Crews Crush Weekend Foes | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...finals will be run as a round-robin competition with each fencer facing every other fencer at some time during the two days of bouting...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Crimson Fencers Start Nationals Today | 3/28/1974 | See Source »

...Robin Backhaus is the man to beat, but Harvard's Yntema has an excellent shot, with Alan Poucher of USC another good bet. Yntema should break 1:50, and he must if he is to equal last year's superlative third-place finish...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Swimmers Head for the West Coast, NCAAs | 3/28/1974 | See Source »

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