Word: robins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films by W.D. Brown III '74. Counterpoint, at 8 p.m., and Robin Hood...
...world depicted here is one that in the last ten or twelve years has been pretty well hammered out into familiar American mythology. It is a stock world of the Depression South; of country criminals who are romantic robin hoods, whether in moonshining or bank robbing; of green country just getting used to the presence of black topped roads and big new cars and cops and robber chases. It is a world which Bonnie and Clyde made famous, and Thieves often seems to lean too heavily on that earlier film, in scenes like the final, rather improbable shoot...
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...
...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...
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...