Word: cigars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington cocktail parties, but this was something else again. There, large as life among the warm martinis and cold canapes, were not only Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, but Abe and Mary Lincoln-not to mention Captain John Smith and Pocahontas. F.D.R. waved his cigarette holder, Churchill chomped his cigar, and some 1,200 assorted Washingtonians stared at them and chattered at each other to raise money for the American Newspaper Women's Club and to celebrate the opening of the capital's new National Historical Wax Museum...
...sight of her quiet ecstasy in The Lovers, or the crucial, almost unbearable sequence in Le Dialogue des Carmélites when tears spill down from her staring eyes. Jules and Jim showed her in librarian's glasses, wearing a charcoal mustache, smoking an Italian cigar -yet it was still perfectly conceivable that the boys fell in love with her because she looked so much like a statue they saw in Greece. Moreau's beauty is full of change and is totally charismatic. It is the particular kind of beauty that Goethe described in writing of nature...
...week, four huge Carrier motors that will climatize the city's new Astrodome-enclosed sports stadium were test-run in preparation for next month's baseball season opener. The equipment will keep temperatures under the dome in the moderate 70s, and will also clear away cigarette and cigar smoke so that outfielders can see a baseball 550 ft. away. The air conditioners will operate continuously; if the motors were turned off between games, so much humidity would collect under the dome that rain would fall indoors...
Churchill wielded greater personal power during the five wartime years than any other Prime Minister in British history. No detail was too small to escape his attention as strategist or statesman. Clad in the siren suit that he invented, a cigar clamped grotesquely in the midst of his cherubic countenance, he never tired of inspecting troops or chatting with victims of the blitz, often had to be dragged protesting from a rooftop as London shuddered under a Luftwaffe attack...
...Ball is a misaddressed musical mailbag. Buddy Hackett, a droll fellow of manic and mournful mien, should be readdressed to oldtime burlesque, where his earthy urbanisms could blue the air like cigar smoke. The frenetically agitated dances should be restored to the speeded-up silent film. The nondescript music should be sent back to recompose itself. The book has never left its natural state-pulp...