Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Penn Relays at Philadelphia...
...stern critic of the coverage of the Hanafi siege was George Gerbner, dean of Philadelphia's Annenberg School of Communications. Charging that the coverage was "an act of entertainment" that served primarily to boost ratings or sales of papers rather than further the public interest, he also noted that "the media cooperated with the terrorists and in so doing made their gesture more effective. It became a media event. Cameramen began covering other cameramen covering the story...
...When the American Bible Society issued its homespun Good News Bible translation (TIME, Dec. 6), some critics responded in sorrow. Championing the King James Version, the Philadelphia Inquirer stated that "Good News is bad news, in terms of poetry, of grace, of charm and thus of beauty." Many readers apparently disagree. In three months the new version has sold 1.5 million copies...
...full-length off-Broadway entry, Gemini, he seems most at ease behind the mask of comedy. The setting is a birthday-party reunion in a South Philadelphia backyard between Papa Geminiani (Danny Aiello), who proudly displays the stigmata of the lower middle class, and his 21-year-old Harvard-educated son, Francis (Robert Picardo). To make the culture gap wider, two of Francis' friends drop in unexpectedly from Cambridge, a brother-sister duo of unblemished Wasp credentials-or "white people" in Papa's olive-pure lingo. Francis goes into a panic of sexual ambivalence. The sister (Carol Potter...
...oldest of 15 children, Walsh got her first serious swimming experience with the Vesper Boat Club in Philadelphia. Under the tutelage of her coach, Mary Freeman Kelly, Walsh accumulated a long list of accolades...