Word: duking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyone assembling a roster of artistic types who shaped the 20th century aesthetic could do worse than a team comprising Duke Ellington, Fred Astaire, Ernest Hemingway, Alfred Hitchcock and Noel Coward. Through some unlikely alignment of the planets, all five were born in the last eight months of 1899, and thus have all been celebrated in this centennial-sodden year...
...Duke University's 6,300 students pay $66 per year in mandatory activities fees, and last year, $411,000 benefited...
...only had $20 per student, we would end up cutting a lot of our programming," says Jimmy Carter, president pro temp of the Duke Student Government...
...real key to Lara's success, says Smith, is that she's the first female protagonist in a field filled with muscle-rippled, machine gun-toting macho caricatures like Duke Nukem or the Terminator. Cartoonish features aside, Lara is intelligent, agile and handy with a pistol or two. "She's strong willed and independent," Smith says. He pauses, then adds, "like the Spice Girls...
DIED. CHARLES THOMAS, 64, jazz pianist who played with Duke Ellington and Tony Bennett; of prostate cancer; in Little Rock, Ark. Thomas turned down an offer to fill in for the Duke permanently after his death, in favor of playing small clubs in his home state of Arkansas...