Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...salvation--shades of Salinger's Franny and chicken sandwiches--is worth catching). Anyway as they enter the hip apartment the intentions of the older sailors are obvious, and they try to charm their way into bed. Nicholson's sailor--suavest man in the Navy, who fights without dropping his cigar--starts his come-on, talking earnestly about standing on the bridge with the sea around you and the wind coming at you and the romance of Bangkok--the woman is appalled. Young's sailor squirms unhappily under interrogation and defends Nixon in it's-our-country terms. They both sleep...
Here was the man from Yankee Stadium, dressed in a solid black robe that looked so incongruously effeminate on his ponderous frame. His face seemed lonely without the company of a cigar. Here was this white norteamericano perfunctorily reading prayers in Spanish that probably none of these impoverished peasants could understand. What was more, four or five of the deceased's friends were smoking cigarettes. They had an almost compulsive look on their wind-burnt faces as they held the cigarettes up to their mouths and inhaled frantically, like teenagers trying to get the most out of each drag. Dark...
...cold beer in the other. More than his red fleshy nose, more than his lethargic eyes, more than the deep clean wrinkles on his receding hairline, it was his hat that made him appear so unecclesiastical. It was the type of hat that one expects to find on a cigar-smoking bookie or on someone who scalps tickets at a football game. It was the hat that made me immediately think he must have been from the Bronx. But, as I was later to learn, and as his slow, almost laborious manner indicated, he was a 100 per cent Midwesterner...
Heikal, in an interview with TIME last week at the editor's Nileside apartment, blamed his disagreement with Sadat on Watergate. Chewing his inevitable cigar, he said: "Nixon is busy defending himself, and I doubt that he has the strength to force Israel to give up enough for an acceptable peace settlement. I greatly admire the abilities and intentions of Henry Kissinger, but even a man as brilliant as the Secretary of State cannot rise above a country's institutions." Because of his doubts over Nixon, said Heikal, "I began to differ with Sadat about the pace with...
...hero's pencil are ample warning that novels ought to be sources for the psychologist and not vice versa. For Nabokov, art is more fundamental than sex. And even Freud, unlike many Freudians, realized, 1) that sex isn't the only form of Sex, and 2) that a cigar is sometimes just a cigar...