Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ELDORADO NETWORK by Derek Robinson Norton; 409 pages...
...league, but certainly in the milieu, is Luis Cabrillo, a young disenchanted adventurer who has been kicked out of 23 schools and almost as many jobs. But the semifictional Luis owns one of the best brains in Spain. In The Eldorado Network, the fourth novel by English Author Derek Robinson, Luis becomes a spy for the Germans in World War II, supposedly reporting to his masters from all-but-defeated Britain...
...show is taped in its entirety, and if nothing goes wrong, the tape is simply replayed at 7. Tonight's broadcast was good, but Max Robinson, who is subbing for Reynolds in Washington tonight, says that he misread his opening. Though nobody else had noticed, he forgot to say the word "near," as in "the framework of a plan to free the hostages is in place or near at hand." The mistake is not very important, but Robinson nonetheless goes live for the first few seconds of the third show to rectify the error...
...competition to keep pace, to create new steps, to establish an identity. The greatest old timers came from the streets, but they don't dance anymore. John Bubbles, the original Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess, lives it out in California, where he used to advise Fred Astaire. Bill Robinson, the old pro who tapped up and down stairs with Shirley Temple in The Little Colonel, died a while ago. But No Maps has spectacular old footage of their sequences. Chuck Green was Bubbles' protege, and the two keep in touch. Nierenberg presents one painfully candid phone call from Green...
...Bunny Briggs will never forget Bill Robinson, who came to his mother one day--"to the top floor of a cold building"--to ask her permission to take the six-year-old Bunny on the road with him. The offer thrilled Mrs. Briggs, but Bunny's aunt cautioned her against sending the boy with Robinson's troupe. Bunny stayed in Harlem. Fifty years later, he regrets his mother's decision...