Word: simone
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first time, everyone in the English department will have an office," says Professor of Germanic Philology Eckehard Simon, a member of the humanities quad planning committee...
...best memoirs tell us not only where and with whom the author has spent his time in the past but also what kind of person he has become in the process. On the first count, Ned Rorem's Knowing When to Stop (Simon & Schuster; 607 pages; $30) is the scintillating chronicle of how a gifted, remarkable, good- looking young man from the Midwest grew into a leading American composer, one of our finest craftsmen of art songs. On the second count, the book is profoundly exasperating...
...Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land, a three-hour multimedia performance work that requires a cast of 50. The first half is an interpretative summary of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel about the horrors of slavery, using both narrative and mime. (In the racially mixed company, Simon Legree is often played, ironically, by a black dancer.) The second half explores the nature of religious faith in an age plagued by evils like AIDS. It includes gospel singing, minstrel-show dancing and an improvised, unscripted conversation on whether the disease is God's punishment for homosexuality, conducted between...
...other hand, "The World's Most Beautiful Breats," a 1991 German short playing in conjunction with "Just Like a Woman" is mind-bending and fun. An accidental bump in an elevator leaves Simon Perelstein (Dominic Raacke) and Jeanette Apfel (Eva Kryll) utterly (nay udderly) changed...
...turns out, Closing Time (Simon & Schuster; 464 pages; $24) will disappoint both camps. It is neither a triumphant replay nor a crass commercial scam but rather an alternately appealing and annoying bag of mostly old tricks...