Word: robins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...innocence (Dustin Hoffman) returns to his parents' home in Los Angeles. There he is assaulted by fatuous friends of the family who entice him with offers. Most are commercial: "I have only one word for you," burbles a Babbittical businessman, "plastics." But one offer is sexual. Mrs. Robin son (Anne Bancroft), the neurotic wife of his father's business partner, lures...
...depriving him of that luxuriant handlebar mustache, the Air Force clearly owed Colonel Robin Olds, 45, a favor. But four stars? Yet there they were, stuck to his chair when he arrived at the Air Force Academy to take over as commandant of cadetsput there, it turned out, to represent the four Communist MIGs Robin had shot down over Viet Nam. As for that other fighter pilot's badge-the one the brass told him to polish off with a razor because cadets can't wear them -he may not have been the only one inconvenienced...
...spoken narration, though necessary in part for sense, is more of a low-level irritant than a dramatic advantage, and the occasional snippets of music seem too often either obvious or inappropriate. The actor's chief virtues are as objects rather than performers: Robin Woodard as Sally has an appropriately blank countenance, and a fascinating profile, which Edlestein uses repeatedly, often backlit, to suggest her mysterious vacuity; Hope Wilson as Kate is blessed with straightforward beauty and a rare up-from-under smile; Eric Sherman as John has a face which suggests a different value from every angle, by turns...
...Colonel Robin Olds, U.S.A.F., a man of great courage and valor-the "typical" American. MRS. RUSSELL A. KAHLER Bonita, Calif...
Columbia, the League's other winless team, will have to wait yet another week before the second-division round-robin begins. Dartmouth, smarting from its humiliation at New Haven, comes to Baker Field intent on victory. The Indians are weaker and the Lions are stronger than last year when Dartmouth won, 56-14, and Columbia's Marty Domres should have a fair measure of success against the Green's crippled secondary; but the final will run 31-14, Dartmouth...