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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. DAN QUISENBERRY, 45, relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals whose wit was as devastating as his sinkerball; of brain cancer; in Kansas City, Mo. Confounding batters with his underhand pitches, Quisenberry was a three-time All-Star who led the American League in saves from 1980 through...
...when most big designers aren't necessarily known for wit or verbal agility, Mizrahi emerged in TV interviews, and especially in the acclaimed 1995 documentary about him, Unzipped, as a kind of Seventh Avenue Oscar Wilde, quipping endlessly about fashion ("It's almost impossible to have any style at all without the right dog"), pop culture and, always eagerly, himself. In the past few years, Mizrahi had cultivated the kind of celebrity that made him known to people who have never heard of shantung or bias cuts...
...work: after a period of retrenchment, jazz, as it often has been in the past, is in a more acquisitive mood. "It's like religion," Perez says. "We are all looking for the oneness in music. To me that's the force that moves an artist." Playfulness and wit seem to get a few licks in too, all of which may even give fusion a reputable name...
GIRLFRIEND! THE WIT AND WISDOM OF LINDA TRIPP...
Throughout, Koch bantered with himself and entertained the audience with a decidedly quirky wit. "D.H. Lawrence compared puberty to being crucified on a cross of sex," he said at one point. "Well, it's not that bad, but then Lawrence always took things rather hard." Later, when questioned by an audience member about poetry's ability to help students learn to spell, Koch snapped back, "You don't teach ballet to improve someone's posture...