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...Listen to me and listen good, you miserable whelp," I snarled. "Your beloved 'Sox' will not be good once Clemens gets goin,' Michael Jordan will never hit a curveball, you will not find love at Harvard and our lives are as mass of days pissed away like pocket change...

Author: By Justin R.P. Ingersoll, | Title: Red Sox Win East. Not! | 4/21/1994 | See Source »

...Tamil Tigers, a combat-hardened band of guerrillas who have been fighting for a separate state in northeast Sri Lanka. Notoriously dedicated and vengeful, the Tigers have mastered terrorist bombing to a degree still unknown among India's own insurgents. Gandhi, whose mother's policies had done much to whelp and teethe the Tigers, earned their enmity in 1987 when he co-authored a peace plan for their offshore island republic. Instead of surrendering their arms, the Tigers fought Indian peacekeeping troops in hit-and-run warfare with extensive casualties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Death's Return Visit | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

This prototype of the self-annihilating artist seems yet another casualty of the rock culture; in fact, Thomas Chatterton perished in a London garret in 1770. Pondering the tragedy, William Wordsworth labeled him "the marvellous boy," and Samuel Johnson burbled, "It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things." Not all the appraisal was so rhapsodic. Horace Walpole called Chatterton "an instance that a complete genius and a complete rogue can be formed before a man is of age." Genius because Chatterton's verses were so prodigious, rogue because the young poet once wrote in an archaic style, artificially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Poet As a Young Corpse CHATTERTON | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Anything is possible, but this script makes Nolte seem a rather sullen whelp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Deep in the Shallow Waters | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...first, Medicine Ball Caravan looks like another whelp from the Woodstock litter. The idea was to have some freaks travel cross-country in Day-Glo buses disseminating rock music, good vibes and easygoing propaganda for the counterculture. Warner Bros, would pack along a camera crew to record the music, the interaction and the scenery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Glories of Grooviness | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

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