Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brustein: Mozart and Shubert and Bach; vintage Simon and Garfunkel; and The Grateful Dead, when I'm in the company...
...silver screen with pinstripes, and "Damn Yankees" filled a Broadway marquee. And who is the intangible god, the symbol of ultimate excellence in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea"? The Great DiMaggio. And what written line better sums up the passing of a generation than Paul Simon's "Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you."? Simon was bemoaning the loss of heroes in America. He didn't foresee the coming of Reggie Jackson and Ron Guidry, of Derek Jeter and Bernie Williams...
Think of a sedate Paul Simon tune, add some Beatles rhythm, a few assorted warbles, and an intermittent rough edge, and you'll have Spanish Dance Troupe, the latest album from Welsh band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. Or at least you'll have a bit of it. An eclectic selection of folk-pop, the tunes on Spanish Dance Troupe range from the upbeat and lyrically amusing to the laid-back and entirely instrumental...
Life missions seem to come as easily to Ensler as gag lines to Neil Simon. She has written a one-woman show about nuclear disarmament and another based on the stories of homeless women. Her play Necessary Targets, drawn from the accounts of Bosnian rape victims, was performed in January at Washington's Kennedy Center in front of Hillary Clinton. Next year she is planning to tour in a new piece, Points of Re-Entry, about the ways women mutilate their bodies to satisfy cultural norms, from Thai women who wear heavy metal braces to elongate their necks to American...
...Webster Groves senior Rob Greenhaw reaches the Hollywood Video cash register, he recognizes classmate Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, fancied up in her white-ruffled tuxedo shirt, black patterned vest, and bow tie. Rob hands his video selection to Elizabeth, who scans it in, smiles and asks mischievously, "Simon Birch?" Rob, defensive, replies, "It's supposed to be good...