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Word: cigar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tunnel vision is no problem for Branagh -- but in the service of the play, not the perks. "I'm not interested in being rich and famous," he avers, "in smoking a big cigar and driving a big car. I want to stay human-size, just as I wanted to make Henry V as manlike as possible." He plans to shoot two films in 1991: a Shakespeare comedy, perhaps Much Ado About Nothing, and a modern story set in Chicago. Meanwhile, he may write a novel. And at night he will read himself to sleep with a good book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: King Ken Comes to Conquer | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...going to pound you on the back andput a cigar in your mouth," says Wood. "He's notthat type. He's all there...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Five Years Of Spence: Technocrat Or Visionary? | 9/29/1989 | See Source »

...good years in the 1950s as leader of the Mambo Kings. The band's biggest hit was Beautiful Maria of My Soul, which was first recorded in 45 r.p.m. and rose to No. 8 on the "easy listening" charts in 1955. Close but no cigar is the story of Castillo's career, the highlight of which occurred when he and brother Nestor were invited to play Ricky Ricardo's visiting Cuban cousins on an episode of I Love Lucy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hail Cesar | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...gravel driveway. From other directions, four cars race down a seedy strip of highway toward an abandoned gray house. A vice raid is under way on Houston's north side, and alongside the sergeant in the Chrysler's front seat, citizen Dan Hurlbut, smut buster, unsheathes a dark cigar and relishes the upcoming catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanquishing Vice | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...from a pinstripe, commission-driven Wall Street professional, which is probably why his readers like him. He is a former professor of philosophy, carelessly dressed, with watery blue eyes and a fleshy, houndlike face. He is still doing penance for his 1987 performance, having vowed not to smoke another cigar till the Dow Jones average tops 2722. He tends to dwell on his losses, even though he started out with $8,000 in 1977 and by taking his own advice has boosted it to $422,000. Charles Allmon, a rival newsletter editor, suggests that Frank is a ringer, a "riverboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas, Nevada Stock Tips and Slot Machines | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

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