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...Child and The Last Judgment, to the latest, a 1948 still life by Matisse, there is hardly a masterwork that reflects turbulent emotions Enthusiasm there is, such as in Degas' pastel Singer with a Glove, but most portrait subjects are caught in repose: Manet's pipe-puffing Smoker, Tintoretto's velvet-clad, regal Venetian Senator, Joos van Clève's Mater Dolorosa...
...Embarrassed Cough." The U.S. press took a far dimmer view. "The background noise you hear," said the New York Post in a sly dig at Chain-Smoker Murrow, "is an embarrassed cigarette cough." The New York Times's TV Critic Jack Gould all but invited Murrow to retire: "If Mr. Murrow was acting under orders of the State Department, he should have resigned after 24 hours in office. If Mr. Murrow acted on his own responsibility, his action constitutes an inexplicable refutation of the principle he has enunciated for years-that the good and the bad about this country...
...Take the Baby." Dr. Seagrave, who no longer visits the U.S., vows to die in Burma. He tires easily; he has heart trouble - despite which he is a chain smoker...
Pete is one of the hiring agents, short, brusque, a smoker of foul cigars and an enigma under his greasy brown hat. When he appears, an electric tremor shoots through the hall. Everyone "shapes" for Pete; it becomes a matter of pride to be picked by him. Most of the men know that he never will choose them, yet they jostle to get into the front row of his section, and even the oldtimers grow rigid with respect and intimidation when someone calls out: "Here comes Pete now." To the young hero narrator it becomes a matter of the first...
...fails has something to do with "It can't happen to me," the incarnation that prevents mankind from worrying itself to death. Chanting this, the smoker goes on puffing while aware of cigarette-induced lung cancer, the driver goes on speeding while listening to reports of highway fatalities, and thieves go on stealing while thieves are being punished. The illogical basis of faith in "It can't happen to me" is the fact that "it," be it prison, collision, or cancer does not happen to everyone. And logical or not, this incantation, more than anything else, is what frustrates...