Word: robins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Robin A. Fisher Rochester
Paul Creswick's 1902 classic Robin Hood (Scribners; $18.95) is written in 19th century baroque: "You shall pay no more than ten pieces of gold for your entertainment, excellence," decreed Robin. "Speak I soothly, men of the greenwood?" But it is N.C. Wyeth's 1917 illustrations that carry the day. Each of them has the sweep and drama of unabashed romanticism; a score of movies have tumbled from these portraits of Robin, Little John and Maid Marian. And there have been even more literary spinoffs. Surely this is not the last of the retellings; it is merely...
...Batman and Robin of television fame may have had a grand old time in the city of Gotham, but there's no way they enjoyed themselves more than the Harvard men's basketball team's most visible freshmen...
Tagged "the dynamic duo" by a sportswriter after their disappointing debut in the squad's season-opening victory over Merrimack, Kyle Dodson (a/k/a Robin) and Bill Mohler (he's Batman) are a pair of very happy campers...
...love Harvard--it's a real nice place," says Robin--er, Dodson, a 6-ft., 4-in., 205-lb., fast-moving forward...