Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This movie is a handsome machine too, but with a dark, cynical streak. / RoboCop means business -- Big Business. Its plot describes a marriage of venality between psycho punks and white-collar killers, to rule a city in the near nightmare future. One exec (Ronny Cox) has devised a robot, ED 209, to patrol the streets, but ED is too slow in the brain and too fatally quick on the draw. So another schemer (Miguel Ferrer) assembles the spare parts of a mangled policeman (Peter Weller), fuses them with some state-of-the-art plumbing and creates a bionic bobby...
...from coarse Daryl's point of view rather than, as Updike did, from the ironic women's. This is not a movie of compound-complex sentences and nuances. But it is a damned entertaining one, with a textbook display of camerabatics -- if textbooks were comic books with a mean streak...
DEFEATED. Edwin Moses, 31, U.S. 400-meter hurdles runner, Olympic champion (1976, 1984) and world-record holder whose 122-race winning streak, beginning in 1977, was the longest of any event in track history; by Danny Harris, 21, of Iowa State University, three-time collegiate champion in the event; in Madrid...
...never thought about the streak," said Glen Whitman, the captain of the 1973-'74 squad. "We were out to play as well as we could...
...happen to think it is the end of the world if the streak is broken," Adams said. "It's okay to lose once every four or five years...