Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remain an appealing character. A bit of fantasy is also disarming. Corman works in guest appearances by film and literary stars, including the reclusive J.D. Salinger, who says, "Sometime when I'm in town, we'll have lunch." Sure, and God is an aged vaudevillian with a prop cigar...
Luckily, I had decided early on to develop other skills. I joined the media. The Harvard media--home of the future cultural elite. I learned how to stomach greasy hamburgers at four in the morning while inhaling secondhand cigar smoke and ink fumes. Most importantly, I learned how to smell a scandal from miles away...
...legal profession only to find that Dan Quayle, Esq., had got there ahead of them, and was campaigning for Malthusian measures to shrink the profession. Or they elbowed their way into male-only clubs -- where they found the huge leather armchairs empty and the air strangely clear of cigar smoke. The men had already run off to the woods, half naked, to pound on drums with Robert...
...relatives and friends, most of them fellow military men. A West Point graduate with a degree in civil engineering from the University of Illinois in the U.S., Ramos is more likely to stupefy audiences with statistics than stir them with rhetoric. The most informal thing about him is the cigar he keeps clenched between his teeth -- and the stogie has not even been fired up since 1987, when he gave up smoking...
...doesn't he? "Because they're my coworkers, and I would piss the whole building off. Even the judges smoke. I've even seen a judge smoking a cigar in the elevator...