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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Naked Gun's script thrives on the same groaner puns and absurd hyperbole that distinguished Airplane! When the movie's villain, played with oily elegance by Ricardo Montalban, offers Nielsen a cigar he says, "Cuban?" "No," replies Nielsen, "I'm Dutch-Irish." Montalban's dignified demeanor is a perfect foil to Nielsen's hapless bumbling...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Going Great Guns | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

...whirling dervish whose hyperkinetic activity seems designed to distract and confuse. In seconds, he can switch from a jaunty Brit to a ruthless schoolyard bully and back again. He is said to be worth $1.4 billion. Yet despite the colossal Mont Blanc gold pen he wields | like a fat cigar, the enormously expensive Lord & Stewart suit, the butter- soft cashmere overcoat, the private jet, the helicopter, the yacht with a crew of 14, the personal chef, the Rolls-Royces, the thing Maxwell really values most is time. Whether dealing with family, managers or minions, Maxwell is constantly ordering, pushing, scolding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Larger Than Life: ROBERT MAXWELL | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Arriving at RJR's Manhattan offices about 1:15 a.m., Roberts flinched at the sight of Cohen puffing away on his ever present cigar and asked sarcastically if RJR, which sells some 290 billion cigarettes a year, also made cigars. Roberts, who moved to a seat across the room, seriously misjudged his audience. The last thing the embattled RJR team wanted to hear at that hour was another antismoking crack, especially from a would-be ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Big-Time Buyouts | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...nagging charge of being an attorney-at-law. Branch Rickey and Miller Huggins were good baseball men and members of the bar, but the A's skipper has had trouble finding comfortable acceptance among his tobacco-splattered peers. In his THE BALLET SCHOOL T shirt, under his NO CIGAR SMOKING PLEASE sign, La Russa sometimes yearns to be a little more like Lasorda, who sometimes yearns to be a little less like Lou Costello. One playing chess and the other checkers: it could be a surprising match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Classic Falls and Fall Classics | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

Although they may not agree on exactly what CLS is, Crits like Harvard Professor of Law Duncan Kennedy--who casually smokes a cigar outside of the conference--say they've put the establishment up against the wall...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Paying a Visit to the Crits | 10/6/1988 | See Source »

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