Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PREMISE: A black comedy set in the thouroughbred racing world of the American West, Simpatico is a play of betrayal and caustic wit. Pulitzer Prize-winner Sam Shepard uses his biting humor to expose the sleazy society of the high rollers and their hilarious confrontation with the world of white trash...
Papers and scientific journals are scattered on nearly every surface in the professor's office. And on one wall hangs the 1997 Newton Lacy Prize from the American Astronomical Society, one of the most prestigious awards the association offers...
...Nobel Peace Prize committee assembles in Oslo this week. While it's deliberating, Notebook asked Barnett Rubin, director of the Council on Foreign Relations' Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, to handicap some hopefuls...
...Kimpton of Schrager's work. He's a former investment banker whose $400 million-a-year, 28-property boutique chain is one of a host of competitors, large and small, who are out to spoil Schrager's good time. Kimpton caters to less image-conscious business travelers who still prize a little personality, including free tarot-card readings, back rubs or goldfish. The San Francisco-based dynamo is establishing a growing national presence, converting bank buildings and department stores in places like Denver and Portland into small, Euro-style hotels...
...because victimhood has its rewards. Wilkomirski won the National Jewish Book Award. Menchu won the Nobel Peace Prize. Why shouldn't they make it up? They know they can get away with it. Their friends and colleagues in the academy and in radical politics will defend them...