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Enter Clive's friend Harry Bagley (Robert de Neufville), a middle-aged Banana poster-boy with a handlebar mustache. Betty wants him, really wants him, but he decides he'd rather have her as a pure inspiration than a roll...
Last but hardly least, there was Thurman Munson. A great leader, a solid block of granite behind the plate, and noted for his bad attitude and handlebar mustache, Munson was killed in 1979 when his plane crashed. I can remember no moment in my life as sad as when I heard the news of his death. I was shocked, dumbfounded and crushed, unwilling to believe that such a person was mortal...
CYCLE COMPUTERS. Tiny, handlebar-mounted computers coveted by racers have great appeal to leisure-time cyclists too. Firms like Avocet of Menlo Park, Calif., market a variety of "cyclometers" that measure and record speed, distance and even altitude. Whether gearing up for a race or trying to lose weight, cyclists always like to know their vital statistics...
...almost quaint. But in Demuth's day, the public atmosphere was, of course, very different, and he, like Marcel Duchamp and other artists in the avant- garde circle that formed around the collectors Louise and Walter Arensberg, took a special delight in sowing his work with sexual hints. The handlebar of a vaudeville trick rider's bicycle turns into a penis aimed at his crotch; sailors dance with girls in a cabaret but ogle one another; in some still lifes, the flowers and vegetables acquire a nudging suggestiveness. Sigmund Freud was so much spoken of in this milieu that, Writer...
...prospective bridegroom is Asif Ali Zardari, 34, a handlebar-mustached building contractor and polo player. Like Bhutto, he is a member of a landowning family from Sind province. His father, once a supporter of Prime Minister Bhutto, remains active in opposition politics. The Zardari family reportedly broached the subject of marriage to Benazir's mother and aunt last year. Benazir and Asif subsequently met at a dinner party, but they did not get together again until two weeks ago, in London. Five days later the marriage plans were announced...