James Morris

American bass James Morris has been described as a bigger-than-life cowboy because of his love for wide open spaces and his imposing presence on and off the stage. He has also been described as demanding and aloof. But after a Monday night season opener for the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Morris was in good spirits--partly because his wife performed in the same opera. Morris sang Count Almavivia ,the philanderer in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro."

The World Travels 1950-2000 Jan Morris Norton: 480 pp., $27.95 * Here is a tapas bar of a book, full of tiny bits carrying tangy flavors, likely to keep a taster up into the wee hours. None of these recipes is new. The writings are all excerpted from Jan Morris' long career, first as a newspaper reporter, then as a magazine correspondent and eventually as an author of three dozen books covering nearly every place on Earth worth covering. Their rearrangement gives these bits new life.

Moving indoors after a jolly summer need not be melancholy; falling leaves do not mean lowered expectations. On the contrary: Returning to the comforts and elegance of Ambassador Auditorium, for the beginning of a 19th season of concerts at the Pasadena showplace, one had to be optimistic. Much is promised, not only at Ambassador, but at most of our roofed-in musical locales, in the months ahead.

Someone who was innocent of literary fashion and the hierarchy of genres could easily write a thesis comparing the work of V.S. Naipaul and Jan Morris. Both, after all, are near-contemporaries and fellow graduates of Oxford and the British Empire (albeit on different sides). Both are master stylists, though in major and minor key, who have returned over and over to the same places as if to worry out a conundrum within themselves and in those places.

Saturday's Winning Numbers: 2-8-27-38-42-49 Saturday's Jackpot: $3.3 million Winners per Category No. of Prizes Winners Each 6 of 6 1 $3.3 million 5 of 6 86 $1,671 4 of 6 4,534 $82 3 of 6 8,152 $5 The Big Spin Patricia Hillis, Bakersfield, $75,000; Pete Amour, San Mateo, $50,000; Michael Beason, Vista, $25,000; Edwin Hamaker, Ukiah,$25,000; James Morris, Diamond Bar, $25,000; Sheri Mount, Fresno, $25,000

Cal State Northridge guard James Morris was allowed to practice with the team Thursday, albeit at less than full speed, after undergoing an echocardiogram. Morris, who is suffering from an inflammation of the sac around the heart, remains questionable for tonight's game at 7 against Cal State Sacramento at Matador Gymnasium. He is scheduled to undergo an electrocardiogram this morning. Morris, who is averaging 7.6 points in 17.

Cal State Northridge guard James Morris is expected to play in the Matadors' next game, Jan. 25 at Alabama-Birmingham, Coach Pete Cassidy said Thursday. Morris was injured when he landed hard on his back during Sunday's 78-65 loss at Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He missed Northridge's game at Boise State two days later. X-rays taken Wednesday showed that Morris' spine had not sustained damage, Cassidy said. However, the 5-foot-8 junior from Tallulah, La.

Cal State Northridge basketball player James Morris will be held out of practice today when the Matadors resume drills after a one-day break. Morris spent several hours undergoing tests at Sinai Samaritan Medical Center of Milwaukee on Monday after suffering chest pains while warming up for Northridge's game against Wisconsin-Milwaukee. After his arrival in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon, Morris underwent an electrocardiogram and a chest X-ray.

James Morris established a reputation as one of the world's premier journalists in 1953, when, at the age of 26, he climbed Mt. Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary and filed exclusive reports of the expedition with the London Times. Later, as a staff writer for the Manchester Guardian, he covered the Moscow trial of Francis Gary Powers and the Jerusalem trial of Adolf Eichmann, and began writing the travel essays and historical books that brought him a second round of celebrity.

Find the right spot as fulcrum for your lever, Archimedes said, and you can pry up the world. In another large prying venture--this one seeking to lever up the meaning of Europe's past and present--Jan Morris sets her fulcrum upon a bollard in the port of Trieste. Why Trieste?

Moving indoors after a jolly summer need not be melancholy; falling leaves do not mean lowered expectations. On the contrary: Returning to the comforts and elegance of Ambassador Auditorium, for the beginning of a 19th season of concerts at the Pasadena showplace, one had to be optimistic. Much is promised, not only at Ambassador, but at most of our roofed-in musical locales, in the months ahead.

Cal State Northridge guard James Morris is expected to play in the Matadors' next game, Jan. 25 at Alabama-Birmingham, Coach Pete Cassidy said Thursday. Morris was injured when he landed hard on his back during Sunday's 78-65 loss at Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He missed Northridge's game at Boise State two days later. X-rays taken Wednesday showed that Morris' spine had not sustained damage, Cassidy said. However, the 5-foot-8 junior from Tallulah, La.

Inch for inch and pound for pound, Northridge guard James Morris has to be one of the nation's toughest college basketball players. An off guard at 5-foot-8, Morris routinely gives away more than six inches in height to opposing players. But more often than not, Morris wins the battle. He is the Matadors' most tenacious defender and averages 10.8 points, second-best on the team.

Saturday's Winning Numbers: 2-8-27-38-42-49 Saturday's Jackpot: $3.3 million Winners per Category No. of Prizes Winners Each 6 of 6 1 $3.3 million 5 of 6 86 $1,671 4 of 6 4,534 $82 3 of 6 8,152 $5 The Big Spin Patricia Hillis, Bakersfield, $75,000; Pete Amour, San Mateo, $50,000; Michael Beason, Vista, $25,000; Edwin Hamaker, Ukiah,$25,000; James Morris, Diamond Bar, $25,000; Sheri Mount, Fresno, $25,000

After the Cal State Northridge basketball team had defeated Loyola Marymount, 102-95, Tuesday, Northridge guard James Morris issued a challenge to the students who doubted the Matadors. "Earlier today a lot of people came up to me and said that Loyola Marymount was gonna run us out of the gym," Morris said. "They asked if we had been running track. "The next time they come up to me I am going to ask them to run track with me." The "track meet" produced a combined 110 points in the first half.

James Morris, the catalyst for the Cal State Northridge basketball team in its most recent victory, will not be with the Matadors when they play host to Southern Utah on Saturday night. Morris is at his mother's home in New Orleans after the recent death of his brother. He is expected to meet the Matador squad in Phoenix on Tuesday and be in the lineup Wednesday against Northern Arizona. Despite his sixth-man status, Morris is the Matadors' third-leading scorer with a 7.

The past three weeks have been numbing, agonizing and worrisome for Cal State Northridge basketball guard James Morris. After learning of the death of his brother Ernest, 19, in mid-January, Morris suffered health problems of his own. Morris, who still does not know the cause of his brother's death, experienced chest pains and a high temperature while warming up for a game Jan. 27 against host Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The past three weeks have been numbing, agonizing and worrisome for Cal State Northridge basketball guard James Morris. After learning of the death of his brother Ernest, 19, in mid-January, Morris suffered health problems of his own. Morris, who still does not know the cause of his brother's death, experienced chest pains and a high temperature while warming up for a game Jan. 27 against host Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Cal State Northridge guard James Morris was allowed to practice with the team Thursday, albeit at less than full speed, after undergoing an echocardiogram. Morris, who is suffering from an inflammation of the sac around the heart, remains questionable for tonight's game at 7 against Cal State Sacramento at Matador Gymnasium. He is scheduled to undergo an electrocardiogram this morning. Morris, who is averaging 7.6 points in 17.