Word: smokerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contributing to the total sales of $4,141,600 for 136 works were record prices set for paintings by the Impressionist Edouard Manet and the post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin. Manet's 1866 portrait of a pipe-puffing man, The Smoker, brought $450,000. Gauguin's 1893 scene of a moon-goddess idol, Hma Marum, fetched $275,000 The highest price knocked down by a living artist was $78,000, for a 1949 marriage fantasy by Marc Chagall (TIME cover, July...
While still in his early teens, Claude Brown was the coolest of Harlem cats: smoker of pot, snuffer of cocaine, graduate of two reform schools, expert in the arts of bebopping (gang warfare), Murphying (a form of pimping), jugging (fornication) and stinging (armed robbery). Then Brown moved downtown, found a square job, took up the jazz piano and earned a high school diploma attending classes at night. This autobiography is Brown's testament, not to his redemption but to his misspent youth. Nowhere does he explain what inner strength rescued him from himself; the reader must consult the dust...
...among other things, a convicted embezzler (of some $2,500 in postal funds), a monumental drunkard, an almost compulsive liar, and an addicted hemp smoker. More important, he was a disaster as Prime Minister. Although his party barely controlled less than one-fourth of the seats in Parliament, he refused to make the political compromises necessary to form a working coalition government, quickly alienated almost every important power base in the Congo. Headstrong, unstable and perpetually frenzied, Lumumba never even tried to govern. His army rebelled less than a week after he took office; his Belgian civil servants fled...
...smoker's habit is stronger than his fear. Cigarette sales started to rebound within three months, by last week had returned to the high levels of a year ago and were still on the rise (see chart...
...remarkable that people with a great deal of self-interest have set up a code that goes so far. I feel it can be enforced." To help him handle cigarette makers who would rather fight than switch, he can levy fines up to $100,000. Meyner, once a heavy smoker, now limits himself to half a dozen after dinner. Which brand? "The code says I have to be impartial...