Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PHILADELPHIA--It was the Harvard men's basketball team against the world...
...quiet demeanor certainly does not match his extraodinarily rapid and successful rise from scion of a rich Philadelphia family to president of Harvard, in 1971, at the young age of 40. Bok is the son of preeminent liberal Pennsylvania jurist, now an associate justice of the state supreme court, and the grandson of Edward W. Bok, the first editor of Ladies Home Journal...
...Philadelphia 5, Vancouver...
...movies ! like Midnight Express and Fame, Director Parker oversentimentalized innocence and oversensationalized the cruelty of the world that oppresses it. Not so in Birdy. Working from a lively adaptation of William Wharton's admired 1978 novel, he has achieved his personal best. He has turned an ordinarily bleak Philadelphia location into something akin to the Prince of Darkness's castle. He has made his principal character, who might have been just another teen angel, into a complex figure, comical and a little dangerous. He has, finally, transcended realism without traducing it. His movie does what Birdy himself can never quite...
...Philadelphia, Houston and Charlotte, N.C., operate similar programs. Houston's hotline corps includes a bilingual teacher to handle questions from Spanish-speaking youngsters. The math hotline in Lorain, Ohio, not only shepherds school-age callers but graciously fields inquiries from college students and, in season, adults wrestling with tax returns...