Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Setting on my conversation piece, a "Bering" brand cigar, so short and stumpy that in my mouth it appeared self-referential, I asked Tim how much the stogie would cost. When he told me "only 75 cents," I was shocked. A Bering for three measley quarters? How could it be? If Leavitt and Peirce were this cheap I would develop lip cancer before graduation. But as he handed me my change, Tim lowered his voice and leaned across the counter. "Between me and you, chief, those aren't Berings." As the night wore on and canker-sores began to sprout...
...seemed like a bargain, while the little green lollipop did not. There are bins of 99-cent socks which smell as if they've already been worn, and crates of women's underwear, through which a middle-aged man was all too eagerly rifling as he eyed my cigar...
Needles to say, before entering Harvest I was asked to put out my cigar. Earlier in the evening, being asked to dispense with my stogie might have had me down. By now, however, I didn't mind, because I was almost ready to take the bus back to Harvard Square. Even if it was packed with high-schoolers looking for a party, or at least some beer...
...store continues to sell many types of cigars, pipes, and tobacco blends and countless smoking gadgets. Davidoff's Aniversario No. 1, at $19.00, is the most expensive cigar in the store, and there are pipes in the $300 dollar range...
...Peter Scolari (Newhart) and Pamela Reed (Tanner '88), playing a couple who move their family back East to be closer to their aging parents. Everyone on the show is wired, from a TV-mesmerized son ("Joan Lunden's hair! What is she thinking?") to a splenetic, cigar-smoking grandfather ("I don't get it. You have your third heart attack, and everybody panics"). In the midst of this mayhem, Reed and Scolari keep their cool wits about them and help deliver the season's funniest half-hour...