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...filled with goose down. Should the $728-a-night rack rate prove a deterrent, choose from the four-star Al Bandar or the mid-range Al Waha. With its casual restaurants and toddler pools, the latter is aimed at young families. The former, geared to couples or parents with older children, offers a teens' club, boutiques and a nightclub. The resort's private beach and sports facilities can be enjoyed by guests of all three hotels, as can the Chi spa. Don't miss the cucumber body wrap-the perfect antidote to all that desert...
...Approximate number of Japanese who are 100 or older--up from 1,000 in the early 1980s...
...Broadway Bound, as in the other parts of the trilogy, Eugene speaks to the audience in asides. But here the voice in those asides is not the young man of the play explaining his inner thoughts; he is the older and wiser writer looking back and assessing the consequential forces in his life. Says Simon: "The audience listens attentively because it knows this character is going to become a very successful writer who will write the play the audience is seeing." This frank, almost naked address to the audience gives the play a startling immediacy, despite its nostalgic setting...
...most conspicuous thing about Simon's father was his absence: his marriage was stormy, and he was often away for protracted periods, leaving his wife Mamie and the boys, Neil and Danny, who was eight years older, to fend for themselves. Says Simon: "Each time he came back I thought, 'At last, we're together.' But it kept on like a yo-yo." Mamie Simon was resourceful: she worked at Gimbel's department store; she ran poker games in the house and took a cut of each pot. At the hardest times Neil and his mother were taken...
Throughout Neil's childhood and adolescence, the strongest male influence in his life was his older brother Danny. From the start, Danny believed in his kid brother's limitless potential. According to Simon, Danny endowed him with the nickname "Doc"?an appellation for which there have been more interpretations than the Rosetta Stone?at age two. Neil was playing with a toy stethoscope, and Danny burst out, "This kid is gonna be a doctor." As Neil grew up, Danny enthusiastically envisioned him as America's greatest baseball player and, later, the world's foremost comic genius. He backed...