Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preparation calls for denting the body, littering the passenger compartment with refuse, removing the shock absorbers, sliding the front seat back as far as it will go, and installing a claustrophobic bulletproof shield between driver and passenger -whose single aperture is cunningly contrived to pass only money forward and cigar smoke back. All this is designed to induce in the customer a paralytic yoga position: fists clenched into the white-knuckles mode, knees to the chin, eyes glazed or glued shut, bones a-rattle, teeth a-grit. To a lesser extent, the same conditions prevail in other taxi-ridden...
...Grade, chairman of Associated Television Corp., Ltd.: a life peerage. Rotund, cigar-chomping Grade, a Russian immigrant (ne Win-ogradsky), began life as a music-hall performer and became a prominent showbiz impresario...
...back and enjoy the game: Make a dollar bet with that man chomping on a cigar and waving a Yankees pennant. Ask the woman with the transistor radio what the score of the Celtics game is. And do not forget to strain your neck and watch the replay of the big hit, which you missed while soaking in the rays and catching a few Z's, on the all-new scoreboard...
Such dogma tends to remind the reader of a remark attributed to the father of analysis: that while a cigar was a phallus it was also a cigar. The humor of Sneezy, Dopey and Doc, the excursions of Hansel cannot be reduced to Freudian simples. The wolf in Little Red Riding Hood is more than the "potentially destructive tendencies of the id"; he is a wolf as well. Of course a child walks in a giant's world. Of course boys and girls dream of transformations into wondrous and powerful creatures, i.e., adults. Of course the tears and truths...
...Paris philosophy, however, has changed under Hocq and his attractive, cigar-smoking daughter Nathalie, 24, who serves as general manager of European operations for high-class jewelry. To reach customers who cannot afford traditional Cartier pieces that retail for $500,000 and up, they have established a lower-priced range of jewelry and set up 33 boutiques-called les musts (Franglais, as in "Dear, you must buy that for me") de Cartier-in cities round the world. Last year the Paris operation doubled its sales, to $50 million...