Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jessie Small sits in the front seat of his Chevy pickup truck chomping on an unlit Roi-Tan cigar and directing his three combines as they complete the cutting of a wheatfield about 15 miles outside the town of Circle, Mont. Jessie seldom bothers to light his cigars; mostly he just chews on them, discarding the soggy end, piece by piece, until there's nothing left. The radio linking him with his combines crackles: "Which way do we go? I can't find the new area...
...Byron makes a face as if he's just finished sucking on a lemon. Jessie, proud of his daughter, but more comfortable with the idea that a woman's place is back in the house trailer cooking up corn biscuits, smiles and takes another chomp on his cigar. Meanwhile. Joe's son Allen, 4, scampers around the trailer on his toy John Deere tractor...
...sins of penitents in St. Mark's Basilica. It was there, says Ryan, that he picked up much of his rough talent in German and certain Slavic dialects. He speaks French well but English dreadfully. His personal habits are not forbiddingly ascetic. He smokes cigarettes and an occasional cigar and, like nearly every Italian, enjoys his wine...
...reception, Puzo remained obscure. Recalls his old friend, Novelist George Mandel (The Wax Boom): "My vision of Mario then? He used to go to his brother's in a taxi to borrow money for his kids' shoes. My vision of Mario still is him leaving a building, putting a cigar in his mouth with one hand and holding up his other for a cab. Same vision, rich or poor...
...read the statistics. There were only 7,000 killed. But in the process, I became an expert on World War II. I knew more than anybody because I read all the books." His editor, Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman, remembers his new writer "leaning back in his chair, a large cigar in his mouth, reading six books at once, three in each arm, like he was tasting food...