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WALTER MATTHAU, who died of a heart attack last week at 79, made moviegoers laugh at their own venality--make that humanity. A deft character actor with star quality, he was the ideal mouthpiece for the wisecracks of Neil Simon (The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys) and Billy Wilder (The Fortune Cookie). But he didn't need good writing to be funny. Born Walter Matuchanskayasky, he had a posture designed by Rube Goldberg and a lovely snarl of a voice that cut like a foreclosure notice. That got him small, dark roles (he beat up Elvis Presley in King Creole...
DIED. WILLIAM SIMON, 72, philanthropist, Treasury Secretary under Nixon and Ford and the "energy czar" who helped stem public hysteria during the '70s oil crisis; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Simon Robinson/Zalambessa. With reporting by Helen Gibson/London
...event itself and as humanizing as the event was dehumanizing." In the case of Oklahoma City, one of the memorial's purposes is "to teach us to be the antithesis of what is portrayed." Similarly, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (on which Oklahoma City is modeled), the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, the American Immigrant Wall of Honor at Ellis Island, the battlefield sites of Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor, Little Big Horn and others are teaching institutions, telling the story of the event by means of videos, texts and artifacts. The World War II memorial in Washington, in the planning...
This longing led Simon and Garfunkel to pen the lyric, "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you." Replacing DiMaggio with Jordan, Gretzky, Elway or Marino would convey that same emotion for a new era of Americans...