Word: simonizes
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...district, at the Metropolitan Opera House. It is one of the few places in the world that can offer truly grand productions of an art that thrives on bravura and artifice. This season the Met has two such extravaganzas, new productions of Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. Both look real enough to step into. Butterfly's fragile cottage is guarded by a line of sentinel iris standing in an authentic Japanese garden. The walls and ceiling of the doge's council chamber in Boccanegra, which opened Jan. 19, are frescoed in Renaissance magnificence. Both settings...
Combining plaintive alterna-rock lyrics with a Graceland-period Paul Simon sound, the DAVE MATTHEWS BAND has become the rage of college radio. Under the Table and Dreaming, its major-label debut, has also made the quintet an MTV favorite and poised its genteel hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, to become the next Seattle. Lead singer-songwriter Dave Matthews, a hobby painter and self-proclaimed mamma's boy, harbors no Eddie Vedder-ish loathing of fame, though. "I'm grateful as hell. I wouldn't mind people knowing our songs in Tahiti," says Matthews, "or even Outer Mongolia...
...hearty, 300-132 sendoff in the House last night, thebalanced budget amendment proposalis ready for the Senate, where it is favored to pass within two weeks despite the narrow majority of its support there. "I believe we are going to do the same thing in the Senate," Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.), a leading Democratic proponent, said today, but added: "It's by no means certain." Similar hedging came from House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who nonetheless crowed after Thursday's bipartisan vote: "This is a historic moment for our country." TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty says the Senate GOP leadership...
While my report--which will soon be released by the National Endowment for the Arts as a hardcover book. Simon and Schuster as a trade paper-book, and Sega as a CD-ROM videogame--is extremely abstruse, banausic and completely irrelevant (the ABCs of any good scholarly report), there are certain interesting points covered within that might be of interest to a general reading public. I will quote parts of it, skipping over some of the more detailed analysis. Additionally, the section on Sharon Stone movies and mating rituals has been censored by the editors...
...accompanying editorial, Simon Wain-Hobson of the Pasteur Institute in Paris compares the battle between virus and immune system to life in the city...