Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sheldon Lee Glashow is a charming man. Five days a week the tall, pot-bellied, cigar-puffing physics professor shuffles into his third-floor office, plunks himself down behind his desk, strikes a match to a gigantic role of cured tobacco leaves and plies his trade--pondering the fundamental constituents of matter. And the profundity of Glashow's thoughts have made him a founding father of the theory of "charmed particles...
...circuitous and not very edifying trip. Winner and Co-Writer Jeffrey Konvitz go through subplots as if they were exploring the New York subway system: as soon as one begins to get them somewhere, they change to another line. One of the more promising involves Eli Wallach as a cigar-chomping cop who sees Raines' lover as a latter-day Bluebeard...
George Plimpton. There is a guy with limitless ambition, a fantasy-world of nearly comparable dimensions, but an endurance span no doubt just a fraction of that. What more would he have lavished during those off-the-field stretches than to share a cigar with Luis Tiant in the dugout, or to chop down wood with Carlton Fisk in the backyard of his New Hampshire home? The BSO marathon, by coincidence, offers an analogous plethora of outlandish non-musical premiums for the generous and non-musical, musical and daring, non-daring and generous pledgers. Two one-hour flying lessons with...
Welles crosses the screen, his foot-long cigar perched between his lips, and booms: "Picasso once said 'Truth is a Lie. A lie,'" he adds, 'which helps to understand reality.'" Take that detractors...
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