Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which to seek redress for alleged wrongs." First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams, whose clients have included the New York Times, agreed: "General Westmoreland is clearly the loser . . . The immense risk in seeking vindication is that you will actually worsen your own reputation." But Editor Gene Roberts of the Philadelphia Inquirer contended, "Westmoreland proved that you can cost a major TV network millions of dollars and tie up its management and journalists for months in litigation. The settlement won't diminish these cases, it will increase them...
...though that doesn't seem very plausible, it's at least possible because of last night's upset in Philadelphia...
...Princeton's triumph before 5500 face at the Palestra in Philadelphia broke a seven-game Quaker inning streak and left league-leading Penn two games ahead of second-place Harvard and Cornell...
Shortly after the picture begins, it depicts a brutal murder in the Philadelphia train station. The crime is witnessed by an Amish boy (Lukas Haas) who is traveling with his newly widowed mother (Kelly McGillis). Ford plays John Book, the Philadelphia detective who investigates, only to discover, with the boy's help, that the murder was committed by high members of his own department who have become involved in the drug trade. The hunter becomes the hunted, and Book, wounded, is forced to seek refuge with the boy and his mother among the Amish, the Pennsylvania Dutch folk who live...
...know not only what the character looks like but what he'd wear, right down to the kind of shoes and the type of gun he would carry, where he would live and how." In researching the character of John Book, Ford spent two weeks following a real Philadelphia detective, participated in two police raids and tipped a few glasses with the men in blue. "When I began, I wasn't confident about myself," he says. "But now I have enough confidence to feel I'm capable of doing the job. It took a long time and experience...