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...overwhelming impression of him was that he was a very gracious and pleasant person," recalls Romanos. "He was a little put off by all the attention that he received, but he was very open to me, a young artist just starting...

Author: By Sarah A. Dolgonos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Behind the Macabre | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...person Brown hardly seems the type to raise hell. Gracious, soft spoken and unassuming, he is above all steadfastly committed to his work. He didn't begin writing until he turned 29. At the time, he was working as a fireman, having joined the department after a stint in the Marines. "I had a good job," he says. "I just didn't want to do it for 30 years. I got to where the only thing I wanted was to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Larry Brown's Inner Fire | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

...best. Change is slow because there's no money. But the very fact that even after all that suffering people are trying to live together and move forward is impressive." Impressive too that after three decades of exile and half a decade of layoff, Makeba could make music as gracious and giving as Homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Voice from The Veld | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...best party on campus,” what’s it like to party with the College Dems? And to borrow from “Saturday Night Live’s” wise Linda Richman, if the male contingent was neither chivalrous nor gracious, and this gathering was a sad excuse for a party, were these guys really Republicans? Discuss amongst yourselves...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Body Politics | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

There are people whose spirit is so gracious and capacious that it is a privilege to be in their company. Such a one is Mohammad, a blind Iranian boy played--no, inhabited--by Mohsen Ramezani in Majid Majidi's enthralling pastorale The Color of Paradise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Visions of the Blind | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

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