Word: simonal
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Fortunately we now have Paris Terrasses, a new bilingual guide highlighting 50 of the best outdoor dining spots in the city. Authors Simon Roger and Sylvain Ageorges use three implacable criteria: "quiet, nearly invisible, and yet in the middle of Paris." Thus, writes Roger, it's "too bad for the famous sidewalk cafés of the Boulevard Saint-Germain" - this guide has something finer in mind...
Lead singer for the popular gospel group the Dixie Hummingbirds for nearly seven decades, Ira Tucker captivated fans with his impassioned performances. And while Tucker could have easily transitioned to more mainstream secular music, he and his group remained devoted to gospel. In 1973 they collaborated with Paul Simon on the memorable Loves Me Like a Rock, and just last year their album Still Keeping It Real: The Last Man Standing was nominated for a Grammy...
Mike Myers' signature shtick is the grin and shrug of a little boy who's just said something naughty or possibly made fart bubbles in the bathtub, and who relies on charm to get away with it. He used it on Saturday Night Live as young Simon, of course, and as basement TV host Wayne Campbell, and once or twice as Linda Richman. Austin Powers occasionally flashed that someone-stop-me grin through his misshapen English teeth. (Dieter the German performance artist and Shrek, not so much.) The Cat in the Hat was nothing but irritating-ingratiating impishness...
...Shadow By Philip P. Pan Simon & Schuster; 349 pages...
...Both his legs and his back were broken, and his spinal cord was partly severed; he is now paralyzed below the waist. Local observers have little doubt that pro-government militias are to blame. "Moyo is a well-known MDC activist, a strong organizer, very popular," says a neighbor, Simon. "They knew that crippling him would also cripple...