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...social comment that had made him the world's most popular living playwright. He stopped setting plays among hip and prosperous insiders like himself, dwelling in the Meccas of Manhattan or Beverly Hills. He began instead to evoke the bygone lives of the world he came from, people so conscious of their ordinariness, their smallness, their vulnerability to vast social forces that for them laughter could not be a healing touch, only a palliative relief...
...between a mother deserted by the only man she has ever loved and a father looking for the joy and tenderness that he has long been denied at home. Most of the play's key battles go unresolved: they are conflicts that must be lived with. As if in conscious rejection of the imposed neatness in his earlier plays, Simon has his surrogate Eugene Jerome say at the play's end, "Contrary to popular belief, everything in life doesn't come to a clear-cut conclusion...
...someone you are deeply involved with," he says. He has had two such relationships recently with women who have young children, and says he has a potential wife in mind, although he does not discuss the matter further. Daughter Nancy, 23, believes being unmarried has made Simon more conscious of his age. Certainly he has gone through a moody period of late, one that has made him willing to talk about his worries and insecurity in conversation and not just through his work?a pursuit that was always his "refuge" but is now satisfying him less. He says, "I wasn...
...This moment is the Kitty Hawk of androids," Hanson says. "We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention." Can conscious robots...
...outrage and action. His organization, Emma?s, created in 1949 to enlist the homeless themselves in the work of building shelters and a future, is now present in 35 countries. Every public figure in France has lamented his passing. President Jacques Chirac said that France "loses an immense figure, a conscious, an incarnation of goodness...