Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last two Springfests have seen "Pharcyde," "G. Love and Special Sauce" perform on campus. Student SpringFest Band Preferences Andrew K. Mandel and Joshua H. Simon Crimson Choices by % Musical Group 1st 2nd 3rd Doug E. Fresh 2.2 8.6 10.1 God Street Wine 5.9 14.4 6.7 Redman 5.6 10.9 6.7 Run DMC 15.8 21.3 27.7 Samples 13.0 16.7 10.9 Wallflowers 27.2 21.8 18.5 No Band 0.6 0.6 0.8 No Preference 29.7 5.7 18.5 Number of respondents: 1st choice--323; 2nd choice--174; 3rd choice--119. Source: Crimson phone survey...
...Hotel de Love--an establishment as cheesy as its linguistically confused name--this is the story of two fraternal twins, Rick (Aden Young) and Stephen (Simon Bossell), who suddenly encounter the object of their long-lost high school obsession, Melissa (Saffron Burrows), at the hotel. A lonely stockbroker, Stephen finally sees a chance to express his love for the girl he never had, while Melissa is desperately trying to rekindle the romance with her bookish fiance. Rick, disillusioned with love, works as the cynical manager of the hotel and finds renewed hope with the arrival of his one-time summer...
...Football Against the Enemy, by Simon Kuper. From Scotland to Soweto, Kuper analyzes the socio-political ramifications of soccer in nations throughout the world. How did Person try to use soccer to his advantage in Argentinian politics? How are Eastern European clubs linked with organized crime? Fascinating questions like these are revealed, and then answered, in very readable style...
...Capp's long-gone hillbilly comic strip, Li'l Abner, wasn't elevated humor, but it was funny, and that's pretty much the case with Zeke and Ned (Simon & Schuster; 478 pages; $25), by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. Advocates for Native American rights will be flummoxed to learn that, as the authors tell it, Cherokees endured the Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory only to end up in Capp's Dogpatch...
...true, as they say, that a year on the Internet equals seven in the real world, then Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace (Simon & Schuster; 288 pages; $25) by John Seabrook might have been an epic. Thank goodness it isn't. A travelogue for the literate geek in all of us, Deeper is packed with useful nuggets of info and insight, but its real virtue lies in what it puts aside: the sweeping Olympian perspective adopted by most "wired" writers...