Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grudging affection for him. He is an appalling bumpkin, young enough to be her son. Admitted to her favor, he abruptly falls in love with her. The bookkeeper celebrates his new ascendancy by lighting cigarettes Bogart-style and shaking his head in the worldly way of Edward G. Robinson. She rents a preposterous weekend apartment in Lille, where she and Gueret calculate their future in the Congo or Senegal, "two unlikely, hardworking lovers...planning for their years of triumph and luxury." But Mme. Biron has also got in touch with an old gangster crony in Marseille to help her fence...
PIECE OF CAKE by Derek Robinson Knopf; 569 pages...
R.A.F. Veteran Derek Robinson, however, provides no propaganda romance. Within a year, the flyers' innocence has crashed in flames. By September 1940, most of Hornet squadron are dead, burned out or mad. Christopher Hart III, an egalitarian American volunteer, tells them, "Up there the world is divided into bastards and suckers. Make your choice." They do, and turn from chivalrous adolescents into cynical hawks. After flying hundreds of missions in a month, a dazed pilot hears of Churchill's famous R.A.F. speech: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many...
...became a photo finish, and four men made the picture. Earl Jones, 20, an Eastern Michigan University sophomore, set a killing pace and somehow held on against Johnny Gray, who was awarded the same 1:43.74 American record time. "I knew the pace would take a lot out of Robinson and Paige," said Jones. "I'm strong, and I have the speed." The third and fourth places were also assigned the same time (1:43.92), so John Marshall made the team and Robinson missed it by a heartbeat. Marshall of Villanova gave thanks to an assistant coach there...
...Clark, a journeyman among movie genres (Murder by Decree, Tribute, Porky's, A Christmas Story), directs the script by Phil Alden Robinson and Stallone to its pre-arranged destination without many bumps or scenic side trips. Tim Thomerson wrings some sweetly comic juice from his role as Dolly's conniving ex; and Stallone, who as a singer seems to have taken charisma lessons from his songwriter brother Frank, is game and good-spirited in a role that plays too heavily on urban oafishness. Rhinestone, though, belongs to the lady. Parton is an irresistible screen presence, cute and cuddlesome...