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...style, with courtiers and endless speculation about her favorites. Look at that photograph of her with her Cabinet -- it says it all: she is the queen, among her dinner-jacketed knights. I think the fact that she has no woman in the Cabinet is extremely significant. Another woman would spoil the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LADY ANTONIA FRASER: Not Quite Your Usual Historian | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...topper for gag sequences. Once or twice his former sweet hipness glimmers through, and he has written a funny bit for his pal Arsenio Hall, playing a man on a murderous crying jag. But mostly Harlem Nights offers a depressing answer to that not entirely pressing question, "Will success spoil Eddie Murphy?" It looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Murphy's One-Man Band | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Tsongas said the Legislature must have leadership "that declares an end to special interest, spoil-system government." He cited as an example the Legislature's vote last week against forcing the beer and soda pop bottling industry to turn over to the state $46 million in beverage container deposits that consumers did not redeem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Senator Tsongas Says He Will Not Run for Governor | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

October 14: Proving that it really doesn't matter where they play, the Elis spoil Dartmouth's Homecoming in Hanover, N.H., with a 24-19 victory over the Green...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carm, Darin, Defense and the 'Bone | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

...SPOIL SPORTS. The State and Treasury Departments have pulled the plug on ABC's plan to televise the 1991 Pan American Games in Cuba, contending the broadcasts would violate the U.S. ban on commerce with Fidel Castro's island. While Cuba could lose $9 million in fees from ABC, a bigger loser might be Atlanta. City officials fear a backlash against the U.S. could damage its bid to host the 1996 Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: Nov. 13, 1989 | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

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