Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Activity at ILM is currently at high pitch. The unit is finishing the special effects on Howard the Duck, being produced by Lucasfilm for an August release, about a cigar-chomping duck from another planet who crash- lands near a punk bar in Cleveland. Also in the works are Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, due out at Christmas; The Golden Child, an adventure-comedy starring Eddie Murphy; and--something new for ILM--a redesign of the rocket- ship ride at Disneyland, using Star Wars-like effects...
...front of the grandstand, and he "stopped raisin' hell" and turned to police work. Gayle Lynne said, "What're you gonna do? Save the world?" And he said, "No. If I can just save one person, it'll be worth it." He also gave up drinking and kicked his cigar habit...
...Kansas. In 1934 D.R. and Isla were married. By then Obert Miller's show had grown to four dogs, four ponies and a monkey, a big enough production to accommodate the newlyweds. For their efforts, D.R. and Isla earned a quarter a week to split. D.R. always bought a cigar with his portion, and Isla bought a candy bar with hers--"a big old PowerHouse; remember those?" By 1937 D.R. and Isla had a piece of the action, as they have had in one circus or another ever since; thus 50 years of ownership. Since 1969 the organization has traveled...
...woman wearing a scarf over tightly rolled hair curlers, and toreador tights over troubled thighs, gave off a brassy laugh as she came across the nose art on a bomber called Whistler's Mother. It depicted a cigar-smoking tart with a mug of beer in one hand, a bomb in the other. "Now that takes me back," she said. "I used to know everything about these things, but that was three husbands ago. You couldn't ask me anything now." After the crowd had had a chance to inspect the craft up close, the show cranked...
...Friday--The American Heart Association names Fidel Castro its first annual Man of the Year. "We're delighted that such an important leader has set an example for the world's youth by kicking the filthy cigar habit," says a spokesman. Director of University Health Services Warren E.C. Wacker comments, "What a bunch of dildoes." "They'll never get their hands on my pipe!" vows Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom...