Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even this crime is less terrifying than what Poet Robert Penn Warren calls "blank, anonymous murder," the motiveless, gratuitous atrocity. In Warren's words: "An old man on a park bench reading his papers, smoking his morning cigar, is dead suddenly because some kid decided to kill him." These days, says Theodore Solotaroff, editor of New American Review, "a kind of anarchic murder...
...lonely road or at a sidewalk café. Each time, the silent, saturnine cowboy offers the girl a Winchester; the two take a few puffs, exchange febrile glances and go off together as the announcer chants: "Ain't no cigarette. Ain't just another little cigar. It's a whole 'nother smoke...
...Feldberg closes his piece by resorting to cliches to suggest that Ed Muskie is the candidate of the "tough cigar-chomping con men" and bosses. This type of smear is unsubstantiated, deceitful and even smacks of desperation...
...Will Penny) turns his camera onto an Indian ritual, but without any discernible insight or feeling. Miss Racimo passes the time being cuddlesome, and Tabori is convincingly offesive as Danny. Robert Forster's performance is proof positive that, all rumors to the contrary, they're still making cigar-store Indians...
...distances are so great and loose and easy, there is so much to see from the car window, baking, gleaming out there, that the driving, the perpetual motion, takes over. Get a good cigar, flip on the air conditioner and the FM radio, shut out the world with your windows and zip on down the freeway lulled by Carmen McRae, by the air whistling to get out the window crack, by the distant hum of the tires, zip past the palms and the houses at a standstill in the sun and float on the air on your shocks, free, rootless...