Word: harlan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy) went to bloody Harlan County, Ky., to investigate coal miners' woes. At Pineville rustic detectives said they saw Investigator Dreiser and one Marie Pergain, blonde secretary, go into Dreiser's room. The sleuths propped toothpicks against Investigator Dreiser's door. When they came back next morning, they said, the toothpicks were still in place. Investigator Dreiser, 60, and his friend were
Shortly after graduation in 1956 from the Law School--where he was president of the Law Review--Bator clerked for Supreme Court Justice John Harlan. He became a full professor at Harvard five years later and has since gained national prominence for his work, which included authoring the basic text used in law schools on federal jurisdiction...
...years, the Bunker Hill Military Academy had been combatting sissy-hood with a curriculum of honor, patriotism and admiration for shiny things that go "BLAMMO!" Leading this adolescent boot camp since before anyone could possibly remember, Gen. Harlan Bache had always whipped his boys into a state of frenzied loyalty by commencement time. The way they looked up to the old guy, why you'd think they'd die for his beliefs. When Bache informs his assembled troops one fine June morning that their alma mater has been sold to condominium developers by a bunch of gutless civilian trustees, some...
Over, as it turns out, the dead bodies of General Harlan Bache (George C. Scott), the commandant, and Brian Moreland (Timothy Hutton), the ranking cadet officer, who reveres the bonkers brigadier. After Bache is invalided out of the film (much too early for fans of Scott's mad-militarist mode), the youngster turns the academy into an armed camp to protest its demise. Besieged by police, National Guardsmen and anxious parents, he vows not to surrender until the trustees negotiate with...
...snap...Levine rolled right, found no one...turned, back to the line of scrimmage, and ran to the left sideline... "Turn it, Harlan! Turn it in, baby...