Word: robins
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Vice Presidents Robin Schmidt and Fred L. Glimp '50 handle government and community relations and alumni affairs and development, respectively. They differ in their relationships with Bok, but each presides over a key area of University policy...
...OTHER CHARACTERS have this opportunity. Not only is there little differentiation among Berowne's three cohorts (played by Nick Wyse, Alex Pearson and Ian White) or among their four lady loves (Robin Driscoll. Alison Carey, Miriam Schmir and Nina Bernstein); to make matters worse, random comic pairs appear at intervals, exchange verbal abuse and eventually band together to present the nobility a pageant of "The Nine Worthies...
...Robin Williams' Garp is strictly from Ork; he appears to be visiting his role rather than inhabiting it. Even John Lithgow, who plays Roberta Muldoon, the transsexualized onetime tight end, fails to give his usual gifted portrayal of an eccentric. Only Glenn Close, as Carp's mother, a feminist heroine, escapes from the bland rhythms of the film to cut a few strongly individualized capers...
...World According to Garp debuts today, and every critic still ashamed over having praised the novel now has an opportunity to slam the blood and guts and love which follow T.S. Garp from his less-than-dignified conception through the notoriety and fame which dominate his later years. With Robin Williams of "Mork and Mindy" fame as Garp and a cast of unknowns playing the other principal characters, there may be a tendency towards pessimism even among the most avid Garpmaniacs. Irving's sprawling tive makes it easy for the cynic to believe that the powerful literary work will degenerate...
Days after the Enquirer article appeared, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner disclosed that police never interviewed Actors Robert De Niro and Robin Williams, both of whom were seen partying with Belushi a few hours before he died. Police officials lamely explained that De Niro and Williams were difficult to contact because they are superstars. Charged the Herald Examiner: "The police department's rush to close the case had all the earmarks of a cover-up." Responded Commander William Booth, aide to Chief Daryl Gates: "We conducted a good, thorough investigation...