Word: simons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despair over the looming consequences of the welfare reform law that President Clinton just signed, even as they are dependent on Clinton to help mitigate the consequences in a second term. "It is absolutely the worst bill passed in my 22 years in Congress," said Illinois Senator Paul Simon. "What's going to happen is nothing but bad. Picture a welfare mother here in Chicago in the Robert Taylor Homes, with two young children. The law says her benefits can be taken away in five years, but it also says the state can cut that back to two years...
...Priebke was originally arrested. Italian authorities promised not to surrender the former Nazi to another country when they whisked him back to Italy for trial two years ago, but the German Justice Ministry is asking Argentinian officials to drop any opposition to another extradition and trial. Rabbis at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles called the decision a black mark for the Italian justice system and "a slap in the face" for the victims of the massacre and their families. The battle is not over yet, says TIME's Rhea Schoenthal from Bonn. "The German government...
...voice when he met with the Clintons in the White House. But the trach was not in a good position. He was nervous when he got to the Hill: "I mean, all the media were there. I think 12 or 15 Senators were there, all friends and supporters--Paul Simon, Pat Leahy, [Paul] Wellstone from Minnesota, Nancy Kassebaum, John Kerry from Massachusetts, Bob Kerrey from Nebraska--all there in the front row, two feet away from me. Like, right in my face, all sort of looking with great support and ready for me to say something pithy and impressive...
...books, including three essential studies this year: Mel Gussow's Conversations with and About Beckett (Grove Press) and two biographies--Lois Gordon's The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 (Yale University Press) and an authorized life, Damned to Fame, by Beckett scholar James Knowlson (due in October from Simon & Schuster). Knowlson's book is reverent, exhaustive--3,361 footnotes!--and full of fine detail on Beckett's dogged, monastic creativity. If anyone could know this private man, Knowlson does. And tells...
...essentials, Beckett expanded the horizon of the possible. Oh--and he made it funny. A fancier of the music hall and silent-film comedians, Beckett turned his stranded souls into entertainers. They dance, do calisthenics, trade philosophies and insults, do a giddy hat-switching routine. They could be Neil Simon's Sunshine Boys: wizened vaudevillians replaying the same old effective shtick for 50 years. They know the absurdity of their plight, yet like every Beckett character, they persevere. They have to, or else there wouldn't be a play...