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...witty fellow Oxonian, the poet Philip Larkin, who like the author had to endure that most mannered of academic dons, Lord David Cecil. One sprightly chapter contains a mercilessly comic imitation of a lisping Cecil pointlessly beginning a lecture. ("When we say a man looks like a poet . . . dough mean . . . looks like Chauthah?") Cecil had the ill grace to flunk Amis for his B. Litt. thesis, but the author uncharacteristically lets bygones be. Perhaps it's too hard to stay angry with someone so wholly and genuinely eccentric. It was, after all, one of Lord David's sons who, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amo, Amas, Amis | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

Counting Parretti out would be a mistake. After all, he bought MGM from Kirk Kerkorian for $1.4 billion despite deafening gossip that he would never come up with the dough. He has a long history of being dismissed and then, as an MGM insider puts it, "pulling a rabbit -- even a roaring lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperate Hours for MGM | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

Donald and Ivana's jet-setting marriage has come to a close, but the question remains: How much dough will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

Reluctantly, President Derek C. Bok shelled out the dough...

Author: By Jason Gross, | Title: An Ordinary Day at the Track | 12/10/1990 | See Source »

...student, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that she and a cohort had been making the dessert items in question for some friends. As they attempted to cook their Pillsbury dough, however, the room unexpectedly filled with smoke...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cookies Spark Fire Scare In Quincy House Kitchen | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

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