Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partisans could hardly help gloating as voters at last began the process of choosing delegates to next summer's Democratic National Convention. The former Vice President was happy before he arrived in Iowa, humming along with a Linda Ronstadt tune on his Walkman and smoking a big Partagas cigar; he left for New Hampshire still happier, with 49% of Iowa's Democratic caucus vote, more than his seven competitors combined (an eighth rival, Uncommitted, captured 9%). Among the other Democrats who would be President, Colorado Senator Gary Hart was the most cheered; he took 16% of the Iowa...
Fortunately there is Bryher, whose wealth, practical intelligence and activities run away with the book. "Fido," as H.D. called her cigar-smoking companion, is constantly on the move: in one day she visits Brancusi, Stein, Pound, Joyce's wife Nora, and has dinner with Jean Cocteau and Man Ray. Bryher proves to be a great traveler who mingles comfortably and is resourceful under pressure. In London, during World War II, she had cloth woven from camel hair collected at the city zoo. She also tried to raise chickens during the blitz, but the birds ate their own eggs. Just...
...evening, Lyle lit a fine cigar. In his new life, he said, talking to his guests was the part he liked best. He raised his snifter, and when he drank, the snifter pushed his half-spectacles from the tip of his nose to the bridge. When he removed the snifter, the eyeglasses slid back, like a beginning skier on a beginners slope...
...Christine, who has the body of a '58 Plymouth Fury but the mind of a Victorian murderess. At birth, on the Chrysler assembly line, she mysteriously killed a mechanic who dared to drop cigar ash on her upholstery. (Alfred Hitchcock once tried, unsuccessfully, to work a scene like this into a movie; now the trick has been solved.) Two decades later, Arnie Cunningham (Keith Gordon), nerd of high school nerds, owns Christine-and is possessed by her. In a trice this four-eyed Faust is transformed into a cool dude with clear skin, wrap-around shades, slick black hair...
...running gag"* much admired by Hollywood experts is built up in a millionaire who, when drunk, is Chaplin's dearest friend; when sober, has him thrown out of the house. A new gag: Chaplin trying to light his cigar but succeeding only in lighting the cigar which another character is waving airily before his face. As in all Chaplin films there are touches of smut: Chaplin as a busy street cleaner seeing an endless troop of mules, hurrying in the opposite direction, only to meet an elephant; Chaplin acting girlish toward a prize fighter stripping for battle...