Word: simon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PROMISES, PROMISES follows all the hallowed tactics for promoting mediocrity into success. Jerry Orbach is splendid as the tall, gangling antihero, and Marian Mercer turns in the acting gem of the evening as an amorous alcoholic pickup. But the comic tone of Neil Simon's book is bland rather than pithy, and most of the songs of the Burt Bacharach score are interchangeably tuneless...
...chart of the 100 albums that dominated its bestseller lists during the year, as measured by rank and staying power. Predictably, there are no classical - and few jazz - releases among them. It was a year for pop albums, especially for those by the Beatles (of course) and by Simon & Garfunkel. Both had two releases in the magazine...
...Simon & Garfunkel: The Graduate...
PROMISES, PROMISES follows all the hallowed tactics for promoting mediocrity into success. Jerry Orbach is splendid as the tall, gangling antihero, and Marian Mercer turns in the acting gem of the evening as an amorous alcoholic pickup. But the comic tone of Neil Simon's book is bland rather than pithy, and the songs of the Burt Bacharach score are for the most part interchangeably tuneless...
...fact, Brandon argues, Mark had good reason for wanting to clear Christ's name. Brandon carefully avoids saying that Jesus was a Zealot himself, but cites evidence suggesting that he was sympathetic to their cause. Mark, he notes, obscured the fact that one of the Apostles-Simon the Zealot, as later Evangelists confirm-was an admitted member of the movement. And he argues further that Judas Iscariot may have been a Zealot as well. The two "thieves" who were crucified along with Jesus were, as the original Greek attests, really "brigands"-a common epithet for the Zealots. Even...