Word: westley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gather round, kids of all ages, as swashbuckling Westley (played by Cary Elwes, who looks like a young Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) sets out to rescue the impossibly beautiful Buttercup (Robin Wright) from a monarchy full of dastards. To do this, he will outduel the expert swordsman Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin), outwit the scheming Sicilian Vizzini (Wallace Shawn) and outwrestle a rodent of unusual size. Buttercup will survive an attack by a swarm of shrieking eels and an attempt on her honor by wicked Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon), whom Westley will climactically engage in a fight "to the pain." There will...
...produce. By then, it may have been too late. Two weeks ago, on what San Joaquin farmers now call Black Friday, a fertile female Medfly was discovered in a trap placed in an apricot orchard owned by Gene Bays, a third-generation California grower in the small town of Westley (pop. 800), near the western edge of the rich farm lands...