Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play is based on a stock premise. The members of the artistic and unconventional Bliss family have each invited one guest to their country home outside London for the weekend. The Blisses--Judith, David, Simon and Sorel--have romantic designs on their respective guests. As the weekend progresses the guests leave the Blisses who invited them and become blissfully involved with other Blisses...
...ability to remain serious in the face of completely preposterous situations heightens the comic sense of the play. Particularly in the three-way confrontation scene between Judith, her husband David and Myra (Simon's girlfriend), Simpson's attitude of mock indignation is hilarious...
RUMORS. After a meditative family trilogy, box-office champ Neil Simon returns to riotous farce in his 23rd play, at San Diego's Old Globe on its way to Broadway...
After winning independence from Britain, the fledgling United States established a democracy that reflected the character of the colonizers. Simon Bolivar and other Latin American revolutionaries tried to emulate the American Constitution, but their carefully crafted documents were quickly subverted by strongmen. When Augustin de Iturbide, Mexico's George Washington, assumed power in 1822, for example, he immediately had himself crowned Emperor. The Great Experiment never took firm root in Mexico or the rest of Latin America, causing a great deal of misunderstanding that persists to this...
...Simon & Schuster; 463 pages...