Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Best Bad Actor (Senior Division) showed that an aging tennis ace can climb into a semifinal slot at the U.S. Open by behaving like a colicky two- year-old. Gentleman Jim, 39, disputed an umpire's ruling with such epithets as "son of a bitch" and "an abortion." Some spectators guessed that Connors had seen too many Robert De Niro movies -- or too many John McEnroe videotapes...
...Best Bad Actor (Senior Division) showed that an aging tennis ace can climb into a semifinal slot at the U.S. Open by behaving like a colicky two- year-old. Gentleman Jim, 39, disputed an umpire's ruling with such epithets as "son of a bitch" and "an abortion." Some spectators guessed that Connors had seen too many Robert De Niro movies -- or too many John McEnroe videotapes...
Alas, the distinguished gentleman in the picture is not Robert Paul Wolff '54, as the caption claims, but in all likelihood that far more noted, now unhappily deceased gentleman Professor Robert Lee Wolff, formerly of the Harvard History Department...
BETWEEN 1:45 AND 4 P.M. today 57,000 otherwise steady individuals will blow their tops. The mud flats of Soldiers Field will tremble under the poundings and stampings of the huge audience, and the groans and yips will travel downstream on the Charles. The gentleman who yesterday called the Harvard-Yale game stuff for kids will overnight turn into the noisiest and naughtiest kid in the territory. After the game, the breath of liquor will hang over the Square like a smog; blond hair and strapless backs will glitter through the night; and Cambridge, seat of culture, will...
Chuck and fellow band members Flavor Flav (the gentleman who perpetually wears a large clock around his neck) and Terminator X have succeeded in making a narrow strip of the 'hood into a wide swath of territory that serves nicely as an image of contemporary urban America, sundered by poverty and racism. It's a place the band knows intimately, if not exactly by birth. Chuck D, born Carlton Ridenhour, was the eldest of three children of a middle-class family in Roosevelt, N.Y. He started getting deep into music while dejaying at Adelphi University, where he also drew...