Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Noting that Illinois has not backed a Democrat for President since 1964, former presidential candidate Sen. Paul Simon predicted his home state will buck the trend and back Dukakis in 1988. "I think we're going to win," he said, adding that the winning formula would be "a combination of things: Dukakis plus George Bush...
...Europe by Sotheby's; others had submitted written offers or were plugged in by telephone. When the final gavel fell after two frantic hours, the take for the 120 works was the equivalent of $3.6 million. The figure "exceeded our wildest expectations," said Sotheby's Auctioneer Simon de Pury, who organized the sale under the sponsorship of the Soviet Ministry of Culture...
...while Presser is hospitalized with brain cancer, called the suit "a shameful attempt to destroy a democratic union." Several public officials also criticized the potentially dangerous precedent. Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah said a move by the Government to take over a union "smacks of totalitarianism." Senator Paul Simon of Illinois, a Democrat, was also wary. "I think we're getting on very, very thin ice here," he said...
CAPOTE: A BIOGRAPHY by Gerald Clarke (Simon & Schuster; $22.95). An engrossing, sympathetic account of the Tiny Terror of U.S. letters and of a life spent swimming in a sea of scandal...
STRAVINSKY: PETRUSHKA; SYMPHONY IN THREE MOVEMENTS (EMI). Britain's Simon Rattle and his City of Birmingham Orchestra shake and roll in Stravinsky's great ballet score, then offer a poised, precise symphony...