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...last year allowed U.S. F-111s to strike Libya from British air bases. Her visit to Moscow in April, during which she spent 13 hours in private with Mikhail Gorbachev, cemented her position as a world figure. British cartoonists have even taken to portraying her with a Churchillian cigar. She plans to visit Reagan in July, and it is likely that once again the discussion will center on negotiations for an intermediate-range nuclear forces agreement with the Soviets...
...most accounts, Volcker ranks as the best-known chairman in the Fed's history. His bald pate and halo of cigar smoke became a familiar sight on magazine covers and TV screens, while his name frequently cropped up in everyday household discussions of mortgage rates and car loans. Overseas, his willingness to involve his agency in other countries' economic concerns earned the U.S. large amounts of economic goodwill. Even bankers like former Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, who tangled with Volcker on many issues, admired the Fed chief's willingness to do the dirty work of wringing inflation...
Increasingly, the press has come to take on the role of moral custodian of the political process. "Candidates used to be picked in smoke-filled rooms by their peers, who knew everything about their character," explains Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution. But this trial by cigar smoke died with the reforms of the 1960s, which exalted presidential primaries at the expense of party leaders. In this void, political reporters, with some justice, may come to see themselves as the voters' last line of defense between canned television images and the White House...
...opening moments of Arthur Miller's first great play sketch a leafy backyard world as lazily enticing, and as deceptive, as the small-town dream that unfolds in the 1986 film Blue Velvet. As these neighbors in shirt sleeves slowly survey the morning, meander through a newspaper, savor a cigar, audience members cannot help longing to live in this clapboard paradise. . Until, that is, they find out what it is really like. The corruption beneath the surface in Blue Velvet is trendily psychosexual. In All My Sons it is economic and political. At the root of the play's evil...
...such celebrity diners as Actor Carroll O'Connor, owner and occasional piano player at the Ginger Man, and cigar-puffing George Burns are willing to conform. "I'll do whatever the city wants," says O'Connor stoically. Debbie Parker, a ban supporter who has a water pistol emblazoned with the words STOP OR I'LL SHOOT, says, "Smokers have had a lack of consideration for others for a long time. Now the tables are turned." The Beverly Hills police -- famed for their vigilance in cracking down on jaywalking, illegal parking and attempted burglary -- are so far going slowly. They have...