Word: philadelphia
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...have we regressed to treating homosexuality on stage with even less acceptance than during Elizabethan England? Protesters will clamor that surely we were able to make at least some cinematic progress with 1993's Academy-award winning film "Philadelphia." But this movie's success only illustrated that audiences across the nation were finally prepared to sympathize with a dying homosexual AIDS patient. Love had not yet entered the picture. And now, almost a decade later, screenwriters alter history and studios still shy away from a homosexual love story because of fear that it won't sell...
Surviving with less resilience is Harry Sahelian, 73, of the Buccaneer pipe and tobacco shop. Harry was determined to sell every last cigar before closing the door for the last time and going home to his wife. He used to live in Philadelphia, where you shopped on the street and knew all the merchants by name. A better time...
AtlanticW L Pct GB L10Strk Home Away Conf> Miami 14 5 .737 -- 8-2 W28-2 6-3 12-5 Orlando 14 6 .700 .5 6-4 L 2 10-1 4-5 12-5 Philadelphia 11 8 .579 3 7-3W1 6-6 5-2 10-7 New York 10 8 .556 3.5 5-5 L18-2 2-6 9-8 Washington 8 10 .444 5.5 4-6W1 5-5 3-5 8-8 Boston 7 9 .438 5.5 4-6 L2 4-2 3-7 5-7 New Jersey...
...Boston has been a social leech of Harvard College...when the supply of eligible young men in Boston was decreased by the westward movement, the Boston mammas suddenly became aware that Harvard contained many appetizing young gentlemen from New York, Philadelphia, and elsewhere...In vain are freshmen tossed onto the same heap; freshman fellowship, brisk enough in the opening days of College and the first elections of committees, blows away in a whiff of invitations to dances and week-end house parties. The social cleaver widened the chasm that a mistaken laissez-faire created between Yard and Gold Coast...
...Philadelphia 85, Charlotte 70 Indiana 93, New jersey 82 Washington 97, Detroit 87 Miami 88, Atlanta 78 Milwaukee 101, Seattle 97 San Antonio 81, Orlando 79 Cleveland 86, Phoenix 73 L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers...