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...months before he succumbed at 59 to cancer of the pancreas and liver, he staged his own funeral oration on Britain's Channel 4 program Without Walls. In the 70-minute conversation with host Melvyn Bragg, the dying man displayed a new, calm bravery. At one point he paused, knee-high in the stream of his eloquence, to ask if he might take a sip of liquid morphine to ease his pain. Bragg wondered if they should stop; Potter replied, "It's better to go on." As another poet of profound distress, Samuel Beckett, wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Way to Live, the Way to Die: Dennis Potter (1935-1994) | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

Clinton began his morning jog wearing a radically modest pair of gray knee-length shorts, thus addressing the national fixation on the presidential gams. Clinton has been criticized, and ridiculed, since campaign days for wearing "unpresidential" nylon jogging shorts that some believe revealed too much of his pale, large legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITE HOUSE ENDS PRESIDENTIAL-THIGH CRISIS | 6/16/1994 | See Source »

...first weekend of ECAC action, the Crimson dropped a 4-3 decision at Columbia's indoor clay courts. Later that week the Crimson also lost Rueb to a knee injury. With an early conference loss as well as a revamped line-up that had players playing up three positions, the Crimson's shot at the ECAC title were fading fast...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Netmen's High Hopes Spoiled by Injuries | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...sense of who and what she was. I wish we could stand on the sidewalk as the caisson passes, and take off our hat, and explain to our sons and daughters and say, "That is a patriot passing by." I wish I could see someone'slittle boy, in a knee-length coat, lift his arm and salute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: America's First Lady | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

...woman was in stable condition last night at Mount Auburn Hospital after receiving X-rays for injuries to her knee, Cambridge police detective Frank Pasquarello said last night. Three Cambridge police cars, an ambulance and a Cambridge Fire Department rescue vehicle responded to the accident...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Woman Struck By Car | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

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