Cosby received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1998 for lifetime achievement in the performing arts.
The award is given for lifetime achievement in the performing arts.
PAGE A16 Five in Arts Are Honored The Kennedy Center Honors, for achievement in the performing arts, were presented to Tony Bennett, Suzanne Farrell, Julie Harris, Robert Redford and Tina Turner.
A20 Kennedy Center Honors This year's Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement in the performing arts were awarded to Robert Redford, Julie Harris, Tina Turner, Tony Bennett, the ballerina Suzanne Farrell.
The association also holds an annual members' conference in New York and presents an annual Award of Merit for achievement in the performing arts.
WASHINGTON — Barbra Streisand, Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Twyla Tharp and Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of the Who this weekend became the latest recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement in the performing arts.
In ballet, that supreme Russian achievement in Western-type performing arts, the Eastern touch is evident — as shown by Leon Bakst's designs.
Last Thursday, when the director Robert Wilson received this year's Jerome Robbins Award for a life of achievement in the performing arts — a hundred thousand dollars….
And there was this sight: Ms. Andrews, shoulder to shoulder earlier this month with Jack Nicholson, Van Cliburn, Luciano Pavarotti and Quincy Jones, all of them recipients of this year's Kennedy Center Honors, awarded for lifetime achievement in the performing arts.
The honors are awarded for lifetime achievement in the performing arts and are considered the nation's highest artistic tribute, akin to the titles the British crown bestows on worthy performers.
