Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...game, Alexander, Busquets and Jake Basset led the Crimson with three points apiece...
Tuesday, it was Maine's turn to rain on an already soggy season for Harvard; although the Black Bears controlled the play as precious few teams have against the Crimson, it took Jake Oulmet's second goal of the game--and a controversial goal at that--in the 85th minute to deal Harvard its seventh non-Ivy loss in seven tries, this time by a 2-1 score...
...role that launched him into stardom, Jack Nicholson brilliantly plays Jake Gittes, a private detective who specializes in spying on adulterous spouses. The film opens rather abruptly with a series of graphic photographs capturing a couple in several compromising positions, while a male voice--the betrayed husband--moans pitifully in the background. Although a rather abrasive fellow, Jack Gittes does his job expertly...
...mystery really begins when the newspapers get hold of the story, complete with pictures, and Mrs. Mulwray comes to Gittes' office claiming never to have hired him. The fact is, this Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray, played meticulously by Faye Dunaway, has never met Jake Gittes. Someone has been set up, and Gittes puts himself back on the case. Before long, Mulwray turns up dead in the water system, having drowned somehow in a dry riverbed, and the real Mrs. Mulwray is hiding more family secrets than the fact that she didn't love her husband...
...good conscience call the whole spectacle anything other than entertainment, pure, simple and a little bit gruesome. One wouldn't be surprised to see "Jake and the Fat Man" heading up the prosecutorial team, with Perry Mason and Ben Matlock collaborating on the defense. Much of America, I'm sure, was half-stunned that no one broke down and confessed on the stand within the first few minutes of hearings...