Word: simonizing
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...what blue-collar Britons prefer, he nonetheless opts for massive towers as the only practicable response to the vagaries of the redevelopment site. Glenn Close plays his wife, gradually torn between loyalty to him and belief that the community should decide its own fate. Mary Beth Hurt and Simon Jones are their intrusive, dependent neighbors: a humbly born and mousy former nurse and her snide, sadistic husband, a failed member of the gentry who was a university pal of the architect...
...parable of regeneration among the pampered class. This time the bum, who is not only rescued from suicide but given bed and board by the guilt-ridden paterfamilias, is played by Nick Nolte, and he makes a good job of it, especially if one's memories of shaggy Michel Simon in the original have been sufficiently dimmed by the passage of time...
...Simon's Boudu is often described as prehippie; Nolte's Jerry, it figures, is posthippie. But the effect is the same. He is gloriously rude, insufferably arrogant. He dislocates respectable convention with everything from his table manners to his sexual morality, eventually bedding every female in the house, including the maid. Having gained the Whitemans' attention and the audience's complicity in his outrageousness, Jerry manages to teach everyone a lesson or two about living a little more freely and, maybe, happily...
Among the many rewards of the congress was the chance for unknowns to meet such lions as Nobel Prizewinners Bellow, Czeslaw Milosz and Claude Simon as well as Playwright Arthur Miller and International PEN President Per Wästberg. They mingled in places as dissimilar as hotel coffee shops and the 34-room apartment of Saul Steinberg, the takeover artist. There was also a party at Gracie Mansion, where Mayor Edward Koch and Poet Allen Ginsberg hummed a mantra, and a wall-to-wall reception in the vast Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Milling around the reconstructed Temple...
...University of Pennsylvania to do the mind-numbing mathematics necessary for calculating trajectories. As soon as the project was completed, the ENIAC was moved to the BRL. Its progress and subsequent utilization were under the direct supervision of a series of BRL commanders, i.e., then Colonels Hermann Zornig, Leslie Simon and Alden Taber. Norman T. Dennis Colonel,U.S.A. (ret.) Pensacola, Fla. Nigeria's New Start...