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...kept a record. His first verse, at age three: "Oh my little birdie oh/ With his little toe, toe, toe!" At the Cambridge Latin School in Cambridge, Mass., Estlin tried to write a poem a day. Sample at age 16: "God, keep me trying to win the prize;/ Pamper me not,though I be crying./ Though snickering worlds wink owlish eyes, God,keep me trying." Harvard (A.B. 1915, M.A. 1916) all but undid this model boy. His discovery of the decadent poets of the 1890s led him to write lines like "(Oh God!) the wonder of you-" Courtesy of Ezra...
Actor James Coco, an accomplished home chef, maintains: 'The act of cooking is like the act of making love. You have to pamper the food; you must have tender feelings for it; you must have the right touch to turn it into a beautiful thing." The 250-Ib. sybarite, who learned how to make ravioli from Sophia Loren while shooting Man of La Mancha in Rome five years ago, adds ?with a touch of sage: "For me, cooking and eating ease all pain. When I am unhappy, I cook and eat. When I am happy, I cook...
...family custom that survives. Punch last year marked a grandnephew's birth with this ditty: O Nicholas Ochs put on his socks to cover his chubby feet. He dropped in the hamper a slightly used Pamper and went out for a walk in the street. O Nicholas Ochs walked blocks and blocks till his socks grew dark and dank. When he came to a stop and sat with a plop at the keys of the Times Data Bank...
...resurfaced this summer at the Telluride Film Festival.) In the dark, eerie moonlight we watch the burglar, Belmondo, crowbar his way into a ritzy, turn-of-the-century mansion. You have never seen such gaudy art nouveau furniture as lies within this house. And Belmondo sees no reason to pamper the stuff; he cracks open cabinets and bashes his cane through display cases. "This is a dirty business," he confides to us in a voice-over. "But I have one thing going for me. I do it dirtily...
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos spared no expense to pamper his influential guests. They were housed in 14 shiny new glass-and-cement hotels fitted out with such amenities as outdoor golf ranges and waterfalls in the lobbies. Meetings were held in the dazzling, just finished $125 million convention center. To keep the finance ministers and bankers amused between sessions, Marcos and his wife Imelda also brought in an exhibit of ancient Egyptian treasures, the Soviet Union's Bolshoi Ballet and, from the U.S., Pianist Van Cliburn and Metropolitan Opera Soprano Montserrat Caballe. Even the shanties in the city...