Word: mullens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defense of the Realm follows Nick Mullen (Gabriel Byrne), an ambitious young reporter on a story that could make his career. A series of anonymous tips leads Mullen into a spate of stories linking Dennis Markham (Ian Bannen), a prominent Labor Party member of Parliament, to a communist spy ring. The stories--racy Fleet Street stuff filled with call girls and foreign agents--first destroy Markham's marriage, then his career as he is forced to resign his office...
...only doubt in Mullen's mind is provided by Vernon Bayliss (Denholm Elliott), a washed-up old timer on the newspaper staff who insists Markham was framed. Bayliss was pals with Markham in the Communist Party back in the old days, though, and Mullen finds this plus his own obsession with front page stories reason enough to ignore the old man's pleadings...
Bayliss' death awakens Mullen's lingering doubt, as he pursues a new story of sinister government machinations to hide the truth. The predictable series of close calls and astonishing revelations continues on schedule, until the eventual triumph of truth as guaranteed by a free-if imperfect press...
CORNELL (46): Kathleen Geils 3-0--6; Patti Froehlich 7-0--14; Mary Brown 4-2--10; Carla Kelly 0-0--0; Tracy Sullivan 2-0--4; Rachel Gabato 1-0--2; Sheryl Chruch 1-0--2; Gloria Peele 1-2--4; Jonelle Mullen 1-0--2: Vicki Payne 1-0--2; Jen Cochran...
Fouled out : Duncan, Geils, Mullen. Total fouls: Harvard 13, Cornell 17. Assists: Harvard 14 (Keffer 4), Cornell 12 (Browne,, Kelly 3). Turnovers: Harvard 18, Cornell 23. Rebounds : Harvard 42 (Duncan 7), Cornell 52 (Geils, Froehlich 10). Harvard 34 - 26 -- 60 Cornell...