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You Boston sports fans are pretty spoiled.

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: The Lowdown on Motown | 1/7/1982 | See Source »

Muhammad cut the sleeve from his robe rather than disturb his friend, asleep on the Prophet's gown. Samuel Johnson daily pampered his spoiled companion Hodge with meals of fresh oysters. Victor Hugo cherished Gavroche. Cardinal Richelieu left a generous legacy for the 14 he owned. Napoleon is said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy over Cats | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

At times, this attention to detail borders on the ludicrous. In the course of an analysis of Odets's family, for instance, one learns that his mother was a delicate child, "spoiled by her gaunt mother, who would secretly give her the giblets on the rare occasions when there was...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: Odets, Where Is Thy Sting? | 12/5/1981 | See Source »

On Beethoven's Egmont Overture. An hors d'oeuvre. Nobody's digestion was ever spoiled by it and no latecomer has ever lost much by missing it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Critical Quips: Nov. 30, 1981 | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

The ghost haunts Marianna in a rather benign way; he loves her, even haunts her with a purer, more romantic love than the one offered by her living (and drippy) beau who totes a camera and nasally announces his affection. Indeed, Marianna's sister, played by Nini Pitts, seems more...

Author: By Leigh A. Jackson, | Title: Being and Nothingness | 11/4/1981 | See Source »

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