Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John N. Rosenthal '87 Shari Rudavsky '88 Daniel B. Wroblewski '85-'86 Jeffrey A. Zucker '86 Editorial Editor: Nicholas S. Wurf '87 Feature Editors: Victoria G.T. Bassetti '86-'87 Copy Editor: Cecile E. Kuznitz '89 Photo Editor: Jennifer E. Pitt '88 Sports Editor: Jessica A. Dorman '88 Geoffrey Simon '88 Business Editor: Judith B. Jackson...
Notargiacomo said Brown Health Education Director Toby Simon came to the unit meeting to alleviate students' fears about health risks involved with housing the visiting gay students. She guaranteed that there was no real threat of contracting AIDS from the guests, Notargiacomo said...
...York in the early '30s was as wide a world as an adolescent could handle. Avant-garde art, radical politics and a blend of bourgeois habits and bohemian attitudes encouraged theatrical poses. Simon's favorite getup is a long gray raincoat, a gold borsalino hat and black stockings. At 15 she is a live-in helper for a Greenwich Village dermatologist and his family. The Bergsons appreciate culture with a capital K, and the baby-sitter, already an amateur anthropologist, enjoys watching their games. Available evidence suggests that the doctor was a pretentious cad and an ideal target for Simon...
...remind Simon of her father tend to become trophies, bagged in the act of looking foolish. A free-love guru known as Jones volunteers to help young Kate shed her virginity. She agrees in principle but falls asleep before the sexual samaritan finishes an overripe lecture on fecundity in nature. Simon's frankness is never gratuitous. A description of her own mistakes combines arm's-length wit with sobering historical detail: "My first was a New Jersey abortion, the result of drinking deeply of synthetic gin and romping with an anonymous beauty over house roofs and down some stairs...
There is certainly more to Simon's adolescence than this risky business. She studies literature at Hunter College, sells lipsticks at Woolworth, pastes fake diamonds into junk jewelry, and sits as a designer's model. But in posing for her own self-portrait, Simon has found a true vocation. Together, Bronx Primitive and A Wider World qualify as a minor American classic...