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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City, Too Ugly for L.A., the title cut from his potent new album of barroom sermons. Yet the Last Outlaw of country music will get along somehow. His voice, after four decades of late nights and one-nights, has the moral authority of a man who's found mellow wisdom on hard roads. He tells us, in The Hank Williams Syndrome Is Dead, that it's better to trust an artist's songs than to imitate his misspent life. In Didn't We Shine? he administers balm to all lost loves: "But I've long ago forgiven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Aug. 17, 1992 | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

Some proctees are, indeed, mellow about the prospects, says Milan G. Chheda '93. But a few are intense. "They're so serious about it, it's kind of hard to laugh at it," he says. "It's scary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scratching at the Gate | 8/7/1992 | See Source »

Another former colleague, Oberlin English professor Robert M. Longsworth, shares the assessment. "He's very mellow, very laid back in his personal relationships," Longsworth says. "He listens very, very well. He's got a real knack for hearing and making sure he understands...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lawrence Buell Eases Into New Deanship | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...great tradition," said Jessica Ann Roth'92. "We like it because it says something aboutDunster characteristics. We're mellow anddifferent...

Author: By Nell M. Maluf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Celebrate Spring | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

While Altman is a big-hearted, risk-taking, pot-smoking, actor-loving paterfamilias (he has five children by three wives, including two by Kathryn Altman, whom he married 32 years ago), he is not always Mr. Mellow. When he thinks a crew member has screwed up or an executive has done him wrong, his anger can be ferocious. Volcanic is the word that two former colleagues use to describe his temper. "It's something to behold," says Trudeau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Player Once Again: ROBERT ALTMAN | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

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