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Word: robin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hines is well supported by the rest of a large and obviously happy cast, and if all ghosts were as finger-snapping fun ny as Saundra McClain (Christmas Present), being haunted would be more a dream than a nightmare. Yet the highest praise of all has to go to Robin Wagner, whose sets, as clever and as intricate as Chinese boxes, encompass half of 125th Street. Wagner was the unseen star of such mediocre musicals as Ballroom and On the Twentieth Century, and he gives special luster to this Christmas card from Harlem. - Gerald Clarke

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Comic Scrooge, Demonic Shlemiel | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...University will stand by its 1976 Report to the Community which includes the so-called "red line" residential acquisition, until a new report is issued," Robin Schmidt, vice-president for government and community affairs, stated in a letter to the chairman of the Cambridge Planning Board...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Harvard Agrees to Extend Expansion Pact With City | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

Despite the robin's egg in the win column, women's ice hockey at Harvard is bound to look up as the young squad gains experience and as individual talent coagulates...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Get Out Your Bluebooks | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

...knows how much his proposed National Health Insurance plan would cost; estimates range from $28 billion to $45 billion a year. For many years he urged Robin Hood-style tax "reform" and a closing of capital gains benefits, but he has not lately repeated that theme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Candidates' Me-Too Ideas | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...them are manifestly dazed by the artwork. With good reason. A renowned graphic artist and sculptor, Baskin Sr. limns a whole aviary of familiar birds. But his subjects' eyes seem to burn through the pages, and the rendering of their beaks and feathers makes even the common robin and crow seem birds of paradise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child's Portion of Good Reading | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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