Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the World Airways DC-10 skidded off the runway at Logan International Airport and into Boston Harbor, the aircraft's nose section was sheared off like the tip of a roughly clipped cigar. Don Welsh, 25, a dental student at Tufts University, who was seated in the front cabin, suddenly found himself covered with spray and looking out at the harbor. Soon he and other passengers were pulling the flight crew out of the water. Welsh saw someone splashing ten or 20 yards to his left, well out of his reach. Then the person disappeared. Welsh told...
Meanwhile, weeks of behind-the-scenes sniping between Volcker and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan burst into the open during separate appearances before a congressional committee. In testimony to the Joint Economic Committee, the towering, cigar-smoking Fed chairman argued that the Administration was following a loose fiscal policy that threatened to push budget deficits into triple-digit figures, and said that interest rates had begun to rise simply in anticipation of the Government's gargantuan borrowing requirement for later this year...
...demoralizing. Said the mayor of Toledo: "I have seen thousands of these defeated, discouraged, hopeless men and women cringing and fawning as they come to ask for public aid." Entirely different from Hopkins' organization in purpose and style was the Public Works Administration, operated by Harold Ickes, the cigar-waving and curmudgeonly Secretary of the Interior, who was determined to make every dollar produce an honest dollar's worth of Government building. He refused, he said, "to hire grown men to chase tumbleweeds on windy days." In six years Ickes spent $6 billion and created, among other things...
Take the group of veteran nightclub comics and entertainers who turned out at the Hillcrest Country Club for Comedian Danny Thomas' 70th birthday. Please. Making room for Danny in the picture (he is front row center, with a cigar and red pocket handkerchief) are: (top row) Milton Berle, 73, Don Rickles, 55, Steve Landesberg (partially hidden), 36, Bob Newhart, 52, Morey Amsterdam, 67, Bob Hope, 78, Art Linkletter, 69, Jack Carter, 58, Joey Bishop, 63, Phyllis Diller, 64, Carl Reiner, 59, Sid Caesar, 59;(front row) Jan Murray, 64, George Burns, 85, Danny, Red Buttons, 62, Steve Lawrence...
...plunges a knife into the kneeling woman's back as if he were an executioner doing his job. For her part, Carmen is an even more explicitly sexual creature than she is usually portrayed. She sings the famous Habanera while engaging in some erotic byplay with a cigar, thrusting it into Don José's mouth at the words "L'amour, I 'amour. " In its total bleakness this is Carmen seen by a man familiar with Alban Berg's operas Wozzeck and Lulu, twin 20th century masterpieces of love, alienation and despair. The production also...