Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which appears in the December Ladies ' Home Journal, tells about off-duty hours spent together, mutual professions of love and, despite Ike's marriage to Mamie, plans for children. "We would sit on the sofa in the living room, listen to records, have a couple of drinks, smoke a few cigarettes and steal a few kisses," she remembers. According to Summersby, stolen kisses were as much as the wartime friends could manage. Summersby claims that the general was impotent when they tried to make love. "Ike was tender, careful, loving," she says. "But it just didn...
...Orpheus Descending in 1957, it was not really worth seeing. The Milk Train Doesn 't Stop Here Any More was not a completely negligible drama on its first New York showing in 1963, but its doctored version one year later was comatose. Now Williams has given Summer and Smoke a kind of coronary bypass, but the patient looks pale...
...peculiar way, Summer and Smoke's original weakness was its strength. It posed a diagrammatic, didactic confrontation between Alma Winemiller, representing Soul (alma is the Spanish word for soul), and John Buchanan Jr., the hell-raising son of the doctor next door, representing Body. In its somewhat dogmatic way, this conflict exemplified the central tension in Williams' work between the flesh and the spirit, which makes him an extremely Protestant writer. The late great theologian, Paul Tillich, regarded Williams as a Christian existentialist...
...school in 1943 to serve with the U.S. Office of War Information as a European radio correspondent. In the 1950s he moved on to television and speedily became the most popular news commentator in Quebec. Lévesque's pouchy eyes, nervous mannerisms and accompanying fog of cigarette smoke became his trademarks-along with a gift for popularizing abstract issues...
...Minnesota, where politics is supposed to be as clear as the trout streams, the deal seemed clouded with back room smoke. Soon, two-term Governor Wendell Anderson, 43, will resign. His successor, Lieutenant Governor Rudy Perpich, 48, will then appoint Anderson to the Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Walter Mondale...