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...unheroic style. Here is Ulysses S. Grant, who rode into battle with a cigar in his mouth and was all too often drunk, but who became commander of the Union armies because President Lincoln said of him: "I need this man. He fights...
Special mention must be made of Schwartz, a master of the pratfall who once again proves that he is the best physical comedian on the Harvard stage. It is worth the price of admission to watch him try to play the cello, or blow smoke rings from his cigar while dressed as an old lady (and later try to kiss someone with the cigar still in his mouth). He convinces both as a foolish young aristocrat and a coquettish old lady. He is the most justified reason that Charley's Aunt should be put on, and that anyone should...
Chewing on the end of an unlit cigar, clampinghis hand tightly onto his newly found confidante'sshoulder, as if to prevent flight, he'll declare,"I'm going to tell you a story you'll neverbelieve...
...frame showing the form that won collegiate championships three decades earlier. The stride is long and smooth, and the pace is brisk through 300 meters (43 sec.) and 600 meters (1:48). Cosby beats his target times and beams with satisfaction. He rewards himself with a Cuban cigar the size of a relay baton and sets a faster goal for tomorrow...
Welcome to Salzburg, in August the classical-music world's equivalent of Cannes. To be sure, there are no topless starlets, cigar-smoking producers or interminable socialist-realist films from Rumania. Still, the music business has a hype and rhythm all its own. Posters of such performers as Conductor Herbert von Karajan (a native son), Soprano Kathleen Battle, Conductor Riccardo Muti and Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter are plastered in shop windows. Managers from the U.S. and Europe gather to plot the careers of performers and ensembles. Diners at the swank Goldener Hirsch restaurant near the Festspielhaus burst into applause whenever...