Word: knighting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Deknatel, an expert on medieval and modern art, taught at Harvard from 1932 until his retirement last year. He was the author of "Edvard Munch," the first English biography of the Norwegian expressionist. After its publication in 1950, Deknatel was awarded the "Knight's Cross First Class, of the Royal Order of St. Olaf" by the Norwegian government...
...GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS--Gladys Knight's voice can be driving, caressing, pained, or good-humored. She's one of the finest soul singers to be heard, and her group has been around a long, long time. I'd pay the price of admission to hear "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" sung ten times. I've never seen a Pips concert, but Ms. Knight's superb recording style is probably intoxicating in person...
...GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS--Fri. Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., Orpheum Theater...
From The Ginger Man on, J.P. Donleavy's novels have been simultaneously cruel, sentimental, repetitive and sporadically funny. Donleavy heroes are ridiculous figures who wallow in self-pity behind their mannered fronts and anesthetize deep personal hurts with sex and alcohol. Like Cornelius Treacle Christian, the errant knight in tweed armor of A Fairy Tale of New York, Donleavy's people move around a lot-"Moving all the time," says Christian, "hoping for a master stroke of solace somewhere...
...Detective Sergeant Joe Wambaugh revealed in two bestselling novels, The New Centurions and The Blue Knight, the life of a Los Angeles police officer is tough. Now it is even tougher for Wambaugh, the celebrity cop. Prisoners keep asking for his autograph. The guys at the precinct are forever drilling him about which character in what book is actually who in real life. That is perhaps one reason why Wambaugh this time chose a "factual novel"−real names and all−in the manner of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood...