Word: morrison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That would be Val Kilmer the meticulous student of each role he plays, from randy Jim Morrison in The Doors to the courtly, consumptive Doc Holliday in Tombstone. On that night in Australia, says Noyce, "he was already acting the role of the Saint." Later Noyce and scriptwriter Wesley Strick trekked to South Africa, where Kilmer was shooting another film. "Let's go," the actor greeted them. He hopped into a Land Rover and, steering wheel in one hand, cigarette in the other, drove them madly across dirt roads to a distant campsite where he was living in a tent...
...place for classic food and classic rock, the Tasty occupies its own niche in the music world. Yesterday morning a 4:30 a.m. patrons were sipping their coffee to Van Morrison's "Gloria" and various super-hits from the Allman Brothers...
Past recipients of both the Nobel Prize and the Common Wealth Award include Derek Walcott, Charles Townes, Henry A. Kissinger '50, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nadine Gordimer, Toni Morrison and Cesar Milstein...
...report last week. Below are the compensations of the some of the city's top-paid officials. Rebecca T. Brown Crimson Name Position Total Pay Robert W. Healy Jr. City Manager $130,169.21 Richard C. Rossi Deputy City Manager 112,649.74 Richard Bongiorno Police Captain 106,567.28 Garfield E. Morrison Police Lieutenant 105,704.86 Walter W. Brutely Police Officer 104,629.98 James C. Grady Police Lieutenant 102,757.39 Kevin J. Fitzgerald Fire Chief 101,941.29 Rudolph F. Walcott Police Officer 100,069.60 Sheila T. Russell Mayor 50,447.00 Francis H. Duehay City Council 38,366.30 Henrietta Davis City Council...
...thoughts that Oprah's Book Club might simply be a novelty or a fluke vanished a month later, when the second recommendation was announced: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, a phantasmagoric account of a black man's search for his identity and past, first published in 1977. Bingo! Bonanza time all over again. The current paperback publisher, which released 360,000 copies of Song of Solomon between 1987 and Oprah's selection last month, immediately churned out 730,000 more. On the day that Morrison appeared on air with Oprah, Barnes & Noble sold 16,070 copies of Song...