Word: simonize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Image. Aware that today's kids consider the Communist Party rigid and conservative, staffers are trying to broaden the paper's appeal. Hence, the name change from Worker to World. "The term Worker was too exclusive," says Executive Editor Simon Gerson, who has been with the paper since 1931. "We want to reach students and white-collar workers as well." Though the Communist Party is the chief backer, the World has picked up support from sympathizers who, even if they reject Communism, share its opposition to racial inequality and the war in Viet...
...Simon Says. The bubble-gum trend has been puffed up largely by a 25-year-old former actor and rock-'n'-roll singer named Neil Bogart. Last year, as general manager of the newly formed Buddah record label, he set the formula with a recording called Simon Says. It sold 1,700,000 copies. The latest in a line of 28 similar disks is Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, by the Ohio Express, which last week was No. 15 on Billboard's bestseller chart...
...COUPLE. Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon have a marvelous time picking and raging at each other in this stage-bound adaptation of Neil Simon's Broadway comedy about two badly matched buddies who try to help each other through the traumas of divorce...
...Antonioni. "That is the one director whose sensibilities I cannot get inside," he says, possibly because the aridity of Antonioni's films is diametrically opposite to Truffaut's abiding humanism. Perhaps his favorite cinematic hero became the subject last year of a classic appreciation: Hitchcock, published by Simon & Schuster. A series of interviews by Truffaut, the dialogue is an insightful exchange that says as much about the sensitive disciple as about the witty, deprecating master...
...COUPLE. Neil Simon's Broadway hit about an alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) is transferred to the screen virtually intact, although Actor Matthau's comic genius more than compensates for the static mise en scene...