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Mary left active fieldwork in 1983 and retired to a five-acre compound near Nairobi with her books and her Dalmatians. "Actually, given a chance, I'd rather be in a tent than in a house," she told a reporter this summer. In August the unflappable, cigar-smoking, whiskey-drinking "grande dame of archaeology," as Virginia Morell called Leakey in her recent book Ancestral Passions, got one last glimpse of her beloved footprints just before they were buried under layers of protective fabric, earth and boulders to preserve them for future generations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARY NICOL LEAKEY: 1913-1996: FIRST LADY OF FOSSILS | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

Lambrooks comes in to the restaurant every night around 9 p.m. to empty the cash register. With his trusty cigar in hand, he dims the lights, takes the money out and moves...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske and Geoofrey C. Upton, S | Title: Cheeseburgers Are Tops at Charlie's | 10/19/1996 | See Source »

Buchwald would surely plead guilty to the first half of the accusation, but not to the second. He almost never wrote to wound. Being an amiable smartass--a pseudonaif American trickster, like Bugs Bunny with a cigar in his mouth instead of a carrot, wandering through glittering Paris with its haute cuisine and wines he professed not to understand--became Buchwald's signature. In the 10 years when he wrote a column from Paris until the New Frontier attracted him to resettle in Washington, Buchwald made a very funny American Abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: FRANGLAIS SPOKEN HERE | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...obligations to one another. Last week Clinton introduced a schoolhouse-repair program, which is meant to spur local investment, not as a public-works effort but as a communitarian one. "It would help those who help themselves," Clinton declared. As for Dole, he often uses as a metaphor the cigar boxes of cash that his neighbors in Russell, Kansas, raised for him when he was a wounded vet, while his wife says that as First Lady she will encourage Americans to give 5% of their income to charity and 5% of their time to volunteerism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOWLING TOGETHER | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

That attitude makes me equally skeptical about the possibility that this all has to do with sex. After all, even Freud may have said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." To which Jung may or may not have added, "Sometimes it's an affectation." To which my cousin Sam would have said, "Or a stogie, bozo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALL PUFFED UP | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

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