Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Waving his hands like an orchestra conductor and puffing on his ever present cigar, Castro echoed Moscow's argument that the controversial Soviet forces were merely training Cubans. Said he: "You call it a brigade, we call it a training center." Of the Administration's "combat" contention, he said: "This charge is a complete comedy." He insisted every U.S. President since 1962 had known about the Soviet unit. In all those 17 years, he said, "there has been no change in the function or the number of the troops." He accused Carter of creating a "minicrisis" to bolster...
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...actors at the Loeb become little more than menials on stage, pushing about various inanimate objects in time to the music. Only a couple of performances have much character--Paul Redford's cigar-chewing Loge and Grace Shohet's teasing Brunnhilde stand out. This is one show where the technical crew deserves more credit than the performers; Eric Cornwell's lighting, Antony Rudie's technical direction, and Jennifer Schreiber's stage-managing must all be epic efforts...
...they were ever questioned about the money, said Jacobsen, they would both maintain that while it had been offered to Connally, he had refused it and Jacobsen had put it in a bank safe-deposit box. To back up this alibi, according to Jacobsen, Connally then handed over a cigar box containing $ 10,000, which was soon stashed in an Austin bank...
...illuminate his times and emblazon his name for posterity. It does not often come true, but it did for Herbert Marcuse. In the tumultuous 1960s his arcane and obscurely written books were suddenly discovered by student radicals in both America and Western Europe, and the white-maned, craggy-faced, cigar-puffing septuagenarian found himself a culture hero of the youth rebellion. A protesting student in Rome spoke for innumerable other rebels when he placed Marcuse in a holy trinity of revolutionaries: "We see Marx as the prophet, Marcuse as his interpreter and Mao as the sword...