Ten Manchester Street, a hotel in Marylebone, which recently launched a regular ladies' cigar evening, where female chompers can enjoy their stogies without feeling inhibited.
The sculptor had it cast in Bavaria and filled it with cigars as a means of smuggling them into Austrian, something went wrong, and the statue was put up with the stogies inside.
But Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Cates still seek those half-smoked stogies.
Steps away from the sanitized, commercialized and pacified Times Square is a portal to a sinister urban past, where two-bit hoods lay sprawled in pools of blood with stogies clenched in their lifeless jaws, watched over by the police and the curious alike.
Men lined up at the cigar station, where a man was making freshly rolled Dominican stogies.
Once upon a time there were cans of Schlitz and stinky stogies.
Asked if this high-octane ritual ever got old, Mr. Papa, 52, glanced at his friends puffing hard on their oversize stogies.
"When we went to build in Costa Rica," she recalled, "his stogies were being put out by his own sweat".
Men with hats, stogies and secrets.
Then Guston erupted in the late 60's with a psychic geyser of squalid, seething, lumpish, nightmare cartoon images: hooded Klansmen painting pictures or riding around in jalopies, smoking stogies; disembodied one-eyed, stubbled lima-bean heads; mangy, goggle-eyed dogs licking trash; hairy spider legs wearing thick shoes, brandishing garbage can lids like shields.
