Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Morrill speculated that students buying books may have to identify themselves and prove that they need the books for courses, in order to avoid the three percent tax. He wondered if a book sold at a college book store and "the local cigar store" would be exempt from taxation at both places...
...workers coming out of a nearby cigar store handed an SDS pamphleteer a pack of matches and told him, "There's a can of gasoline over by that truck...
...tolerant folk in whose valley Finian has sunk his funds; Pat Wynn, as the hero's graceful kid sister who, being mute, dances to communicate (don't worry, she'll learn to say "I . . . love . . . you" before the curtain; and Steve Presser, in the small role of a cigar-chawin', bulge-bellied minion...
Everything is different, everything is an adventure to Rubinstein?the Boston concert, the limousine ride, the cigar, the subsequent performances in Toronto, Washington, Chicago. He plays on life as he plays on the piano-with style, with taste, with exuberance, and with a spontaneity that is all the more breathtaking because it is marvelously original. Last month, within a period of ten days, he reeled off eight major concertos by Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms in Carnegie Hall; few other instrumentalists in the world, regardless of age or standing, would have attempted such a grueling program?and none could have matched...
...cigars are the best. When he sensed the shift of politics in Cuba, he bought 3,000 of his favorite Upmann Montecristos at 75é apiece, and had them stored in the humidor in Manhattan's "21" Club, from which he draws, in miserly fashion, enough for two or three smokes a day. "It's not a vice," he explains. "If I couldn't get the right brands, I wouldn't smoke at all. You know, in films when a soldier is dying, the first thing they do is stuff a cigarette into his mouth, and he dies happily...