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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Knowles's disarming British wit serves him well in speeches at formal occassions, including Faculty meetings, dinners and his address at Convocation...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold and Chana R. Schoenberger | Title: Portrait Of a Dean | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...join in a "three-way" with him and another man and that he threw her on the bed and viciously bit her on the back 10 to 15 times. Then, according to court documents, he did "by force, threat or intimidation engage in an act of sodomy, to wit: fellatio." After the woman sought treatment at a local hospital, the police were notified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORTSCASTERS BEHAVING BADLY? | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

What a nice change of pace it is to hear two trumpets playing together in a small-group context. They share lovers' murmurs here, a joke there, sometimes joining for a ripe, plangent phrase. The nonagenarian demonstrates lungs, the whippersnapper sly wit (and an occasional bent for theatrics); both have a sweetly teasing way with a melody. Cheatham's talk-singing on 10 of the 14 tunes may be an acquired taste. On the continuum of singing horn players, he's probably closer to Dizzy Gillespie than to Armstrong, but listeners with generous ears will be charmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: FRESH HEIRS | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...wrote that? Sir Thomas More. A knight, a saint, a humanist, a wit, a martyr and a man, famously, for all seasons. And yet a man so besotted by the idea of summer, evidently, that he would foist that season's worst weather off onto winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COOL SUMMER: TOO DARN HOT: A DISSENTER'S VIEW | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...minutes of great make-out music. What a nice change of pace it is to hear two trumpets playing together in a small-group context. They share lovers? murmurs here, a joke there, sometimes joining for a ripe, plangent phrase. The nonagenarian demonstrates lungs, the whippersnapper sly wit (and an occasional bent for theatrics); both have a sweetly teasing way with a melody. Cheatham?s talk-singing on 10 of the 14 tunes may be an acquired taste. On the continuum of singing horn players, he?s probably closer to Dizzy Gillespie than to Armstrong, but listeners with generous ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekly Entertainment Guide | 5/23/1997 | See Source »

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