Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meantime, Harvard still has the matter of an Ivy League championship to take care of. The Crimson travels to Philadelphia Friday night to meet Penn--and was scheduled to wrap up the regular season at home, against the Elis, on the morn of The Game...
Same time, last year: Harvard travels to Philadelphia Saturday to take on the mighty Penn Quakers (8-0 overall, 5-0 Ivy). Penn has won an unprecedented 19 of its last 20 Ivy games, with the only loss coming in Cambridge last year...
...What do the makers of Trivial Pursuit offer as a follow-up to their wildly popular parlor pastime? Answer: the World According to UBI, a Q&A treasure-hunt game played on a geographical map, which went on sale last week in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston and Philadelphia for $35. This time Trivial Masterminds Scott & Abbott and Chris and John Haney wanted to come up with something too complicated to copy. Says Chris: "We got kind of cheesed off by the Trivial Pursuit knockoffs appearing all over the world and decided to try something with a little inspiration...
...keeps him from joining Stallone's exploitational bandwagon. He didn't want to take part in Rocky II, he said, because "I thought the script was really lame." Avildsen had hoped to make a Rocky trilogy: In the path not taken, Rocky would have become the populist mayor of Philadelphia in II and get tossed out because of a corruption scandal in III, ending up back in the ring where he started. Stallone decided Philadelphia City Hall was small-time; the Rocky-Rambo-Cobra hybrid which has terrorized movie screens near you has nothing less than a new world order...
Fred and Ginger they're not. On his best behavior, Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) pukes for pleasure, throws darts at idlers and smashes his head against the concrete walls of propriety. Then he meets Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb), a pug- faced groupie from a Philadelphia suburb, and starts living up to his name. As the defiantly incompetent bass player for the Sex Pistols, Sid became the working-class hero and elitists' toy of pre-Thatcher Britain. To the romanticizers of punk anarchy, Sid's abuse of his body, his buddies and his music gave evidence of a rock Rimbaud...