Word: cigar
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...much classical music was originally made. Over the past 175 years, a dashing, Byronic image was eagerly sought after by many of the important figures in composition and performance. Franz Liszt, devastatingly handsome, was the most famous lover in Europe as well the greatest pianist; women fought over the cigar butts he left on the piano after a concert. Leopold Stokowski, the great conductor who shook Mickey Mouse's hand in Fantasia, used to ensure that the lighting at his concerts highlighted his aquiline countenance and halo of long hair. In short, sex has always sold. What...
...SMOKING CIGAR...
...Belmont Park, strongly favored Cigar captured the $3 million Breeders' Cup Classic in record time to cap a dazzling undefeated season...
...struck, "They're so happy that they're giddy over there" -- over there meaning in the office of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. And by transatlantic telephone Bill Clinton told U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, "Hey, Mick, congratulations. It sounds like you did great." It may not have been a cigar-on-the-veranda moment for the President, but he was clearly pleased. And, maybe more to the point, relieved...
...stretched thin. The Bosnian government's forces lack heavy weaponry but have grown to about 150,000 troops. "The Bosnian Serbs are overextended," U.S. General John Galvin, the former NATO commander, said in Washington last week, "and they are outnumbered." Still, they have artillery. Norman Cigar, a military analyst at the Marine Corps School of Advanced Warfighting outside Washington, says the Bosnian advantage in manpower and the Serbs' advantage in artillery create a "recipe for an indecisive, bloody, volatile stalemate...