Sentences with phrase «name of the precinct»

Going back farther, the word «academy» was originally the name of the precinct in Athens where Plato established his school, and he clearly affirmed that freedom for the truth can not be separated from worship of the divine.

Not exact matches

THE BRONX — A campaign is underway to have a school named after a sergeant from the 43rd Precinct who was fatally shot in the line of duty last year.

Evan Hunter (The Birds, Strangers When We Meet) would adapt one of his own «87th Precinct» novels that he had written under the name of Ed McBain, but whatever fun is to be had in reading the original source material didn't translate well to the screen.

SImon Pegg (Mission Impossible III, Shaun of the Dead) stars as the strict by - the - book police sergeant named Nicholas Angel, who is dispatched to a rural town from his big city environs when he becomes «too good» for his current precinct, making the rest of the cops look bad by comparison.

Anecdotal supporting evidence arrives in the form of 36th Precinct, a top - notch criminal thriller import from France which finds a pair of cops skirting the edges of the law in the name of their jobs as well as macho competition.

Assault on Precinct 13, loosely based on the 1976 film of the same name written and directed by John Carpenter, is a gritty, violent journey that's about twice as good as you'd expect it to be.

Ethan Hawke (Lord of War, Assault on Precinct 13) adapts and directs this big screen version of the book he published back in 1997 of the same name, also giving himself a role as the father who would remain largely absent from his boy's life after the dissolution of the relationship.

Born Salvatore Lombino, he clocked up an impressive number of pseudonyms in his 50 + year writing career - during the 50s he wrote eight books under the name Richard Marsten, two books as Hunt Collins and two as Curt Cannon, in addition to starting on his now famous 87th Precinct series under the name Ed McBain.

Rounding out the top ten are a host of familiar names representing the most significants precincts of the art world, from dealing (Iwan and Manuela Wirth, in fourth place, join Zwirner and Gagosian) and collecting (Leon Black at 8 and Sheikha Mayassa of the Qatar Museum Authority at 9) to curating (the New Museum's Massimiliano Gioni, 5) and auctions (Christie's CEO Stephen Murphy in third place, China Guardian's Wang Yannan in seventh, and Sotheby's jewelry guru David Bennett in tenth).