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With his kitchen-knife physique, sour face and a hairdo resembling a road-kill toupee, Lyle Lovett looks like a serial killer in Southern Baptist preacher's garb. That must be what inspired Robert Altman to cast the singer as a spooky detective in The Player. Anatomy is destiny in modern show biz, so it doesn't hurt Lovett that he looks like his songs. He could be a death-row denizen musing about the ends of life and love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lone Star Gothic | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

...embarrassing incidents became less frequent but did not end. In February 1990, Lujan visited New Mexico's Petroglyph National Monument. There he stunned local officials gathered around the centuries-old "Dancing Kachina Petroglyph" when he bent down beside an adjacent rock and scratched it with a knife. The Secretary was asked to refrain. Lujan explains the incident without a trace of embarrassment: "There was this whole discussion going on, which I knew was not correct, about how hard the rock was, that there must have been enormously sharp instruments to make these petroglyphs. I just took out my knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manuel Lujan: The Stealth Secretary | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

...says that you held the knife in a threatening manner...

Author: By William H. Bachman, | Title: CRIMINAL BUSINESS | 5/15/1992 | See Source »

...frightened victims was then falselyaccused of possessing a knife and, subsequentlyfrisked," the flyer reads...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police, Black Students Dispute Racial Incidents | 5/8/1992 | See Source »

...president Ali said the community should notfocus on the frisking of the students. "Ourproblem is with the security guard," said Ali."Our problem is not with the knife...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police, Black Students Dispute Racial Incidents | 5/8/1992 | See Source »

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