Word: cigars
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...news is about Jessica, our first grandchild (have a cigar; no, don't), who was born on March 1, just under 7 lbs. and 19 in. big. I hold her on the couch as she sleeps swaddled--part baby, part blanket--in the crook of my arm. Her harpist's fingers twitch in independent dreams. The threads of blue veins above her barely visible eyebrows run like rivers on a map. It comes back to you, holding babies--the surprisingly substantial weight...
...parking lot was Tom Arnold, chomping on his perennial cigar and calling everyone "buddy." There is no such thing as a truly rhetorical question in Hollywood, so his response to my "How are you?" yielded the past weekend's grosses for his latest film, "Exit Wounds." Arnold's reply was quite the norm in this town. After all, you are what you gross. (For what it's worth, he actually looked pretty healthy...
...return to a paradise previously lost would make anyone happy. And Adrian Zecha is clearly content. He is sitting amid swaying coconut trees at Amanpuri on Phuket?the first resort he created in 1988. Cigar in hand, his youthful demeanor belying his 68 years, he is explaining how it felt to remove himself from Amanresorts, the luxury resort chain he founded and nurtured for more than a decade before a shareholder dispute over its parent company forced his two-year hiatus. "When you have a two-year-old child, you definitely are indispensable," says Zecha...
...unforgiving earth in remote Gansu province. "We got married for convenience," says Zhu. "Now I get to live my life for myself." She sips her bordeaux and crooks a finger at a well-muscled specimen circling the bar. As he starts approaching, she takes a last puff of her cigar and grins: "It's wonderful being a modern Chinese woman...
...Others say it is too small." The Republicans' turn, a bigger, lustier throaty roar from all the cigar-chompers in the room...