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...Senator Thad Cochran(R-Miss,) was having a party of his own last night, popping balloons by the score on the convention floor. To do most of his spearing, he used a pocket knife, which he jabbed relentlessly at conventioneers' feet. "You know, a good Mississippian never comes without his knife," he told amused on-lookers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houston Diary | 8/21/1992 | See Source »

...Count's outfit was nicknamed the Atomic Band, and the seismic swing on this set -- recorded on dates in Manhattan, Miami and Stockholm -- ought to come with a Geiger counter. Vintage arrangements by the likes of Neal Hefti and Frank Foster, players such as Thad Jones and Benny Powell, and the Count guiding the band from the piano with nimble majesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991: MUSIC-POPULAR | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...Count's outfit was nicknamed the Atomic Band, and the seismic swing on this set -- recorded on dates in Manhattan, Miami and Stockholm -- ought to come with a Geiger counter. Vintage arrangements by the likes of Neal Hefti and Frank Foster, players such as Thad Jones and Benny Powell, and the Count guiding the band from the piano with nimble majesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...year. Merrill, a singer in the great tradition of June Christy and Chris Connor, comes to the Christmas party using the eloquent arrangements of Torrie Zito to bring some fresh feeling to standards (such as White Christmas) and offers up a few surprises (tunes by Claude Thornhill and Thad Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Dec. 16, 1991 | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...thunderation, the first of four in a reported $30 million to $40 million publishing deal, the author plays with a twist of the old good-twin, bad-twin theme. Novelist Thad Beaumont, who lives in Maine (as does King), collided with writer's block a few years ago and rescued his career by writing four novels under the pseudonym of George Stark (just as King has written five novels as Richard Bachman). These tales, unlike Beaumont's, were violent, brutal and very successful. Now Beaumont, writing on his own again, wants to bury Stark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slice Of Death | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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