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...ever-pregnant Mae, Joan Pape has a more authentic accent than Maggie, but she is not nearly vicious and venomous enough. Charles Siebert's cigar-smoking Gooper is adequate. This couple is not up to the Madeleine Sherwood and Pat Hingle of 1955. Wyman Pendleton's Reverend Tooker is a deft sketch; and William Larsen has the unrewarding role of Doctor Baugh, who, like a messenger in Greek drama, is on hand merely as the bearer of bad tidings. The children and servants perform their bits admirably...
Invented by an Amsterdam engineer named Luud Schimmelpennink -apparently no kin to the Dutch cigar manufacturer of that name-Witkar is a two-seater, drive-it-yourself electric vehicle. It purrs peacefully at up to 20 m.p.h. and 2.4 miles between strategically located stations where it can be recharged in five minutes. There will be 15 in July, and eventually Amsterdam's burghers plan to have a fleet of 1,500 of the buggies in the central city...
...just what Cobb set out to do. In constructing the rhomboid building, the Pei partner created a building that seems inoffensive and one-dimensional from all sides. One of the men who examined the original plans, Ahern, said that the models "looked like a piece of wood covered with cigar wrappers. It looked pretty bad in the model but once built with those reflecting windows, it looked pretty vibrant and exciting." Rick Heym, president of Enviro-Design Group in Cambridge, also said that the bulding was deceptive on paper. "It looked like it would be inappropriate for the neighborhood...
...want to exaggerate, but I'd say we gawked at what he showed us as if we were a bunch of sheep seeing through a gate for the first time. When he showed us one of his rockets, we thought it looked like nothing but a huge cigar-shaped tube, and we didn't believe it could fly. Korolyov took us on a tour of a launching pad and tried to explain how the rocket worked. We were like peasants in a marketplace. We walked around and around the rocket, touching it, tapping...
SIGMUND FREUD, a cigar smoker, warned against the overzealous application of dream symbolism to real life--there are times, he said, when a cigar is only a cigar. Not in this book. John Hawkes has no more use for superfluous detail, like non-phallic cigars, in his symbolist writing than he does for such commonplaces of novelistic technique as simple diction and chronological narrative...