Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friday night is no big deal. The sure-thing pictures are there usually: one of the slicker film societies is raking it in with flashy commercial showings--they lower the screen dramatically before it starts and announce next week's feature over mysterious loud-speakers while a don't smoke don't drink don't eat sign materializes up front. Or a lowly House film society that's been doggedly cranking out respectable and sparsely attended movies all year will try to bail itself out an shuck their principles by showing a bald-faced universal drawing card like Love Storyor...
Although they reject Ronsard's rationale, most doctors consider her dietary suggestions healthful, and agree with her that American women should smoke and drink less, exercise more and learn to relax...
Lefkowitz aimed cautiously, and smiled with satisfaction as the eight-ball disappeared into the side pocket. As he paused for his new challenger to rack the balls, I lit up a cigarette. "Don't you ever worry before you smoke a cigarette that it may do something to you?" he asked. "I'm always a little afraid it will alter my senses, put me a little bit out of control. For years I had this shaky bow arm. All I did was worry about whether I could ever pull a smooth bow. I was terrified that I would never...
Outside on the Florida beach, men 15 or 20 years his junior were content to lounge in complacent retirement, but the pink-cheeked, white-haired, blocky figure stumping the hotel corridors was clearly just rounding into top form at the age of 80. Trailing cigar smoke and the unmistakable evanescence of power, AFL-CIO President George Meany last week took firm command of the annual assembly of the nation's labor chieftains at the elegant resort town of Bal Harbour, Fla. When he was through, Meany had displayed his consummate mastery of the labor movement and strengthened his position...
Thus were seven weeks of rumors dissipated in a puff of smoke. Since Brezhnev vanished from public view on Dec. 24, he has been widely reported to be medically and politically moribund. Some Kremlinologists predicted that if he failed to greet Wilson, who was making his first state visit to Moscow in seven years, that would confirm the direst of long-distance diagnoses. On the eve of the British Prime Minister's visit, the respected Paris daily Le Monde cited "informed Soviet sources" as saying that Brezhnev had suffered a "brutal" relapse from cancer, or, alternatively, cardiovascular disease. Other...