Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much more secretive and reluctant to provide ammunition for its critics. But two new books -- The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng by Harrison E. Salisbury (Little, Brown; 544 pages; $24.95) and The Claws of the Dragon: Kang Sheng by John Byron and Robert Pack (Simon & Schuster; 560 pages; $27.50) -- indicate that glasnost is coming, inexorably, to Beijing. They provide the most detailed and personal accounts so far of the chaos, cruelty and corruption that Mao Zedong's reign inflicted on the nation...
...Cocteau Twins are oddly named, consideringthat the groups is actually a threesome, andScottish at that. Elizabeth Fraser, the vocalist,actually started the group, and was soon joined bybassist Simon Raymond (who left after the releaseof the first album, Garlands) and guitaristRobin Guthrie...
Clio Hears Medusa's Laugh: Feminism, Literary Criticism, and History--by Simon Sxhama, professor and other members of the H-R community. Dudley House, Common Room, Lehman Hall...
...play it again? When Barry Manilow helped open the new Paramount theater -- a symbolic act in itself -- back in September with a volley of his favorite Broadway standards, he was the latest of several Pop stars to declare for the old-time religion: Maureen McGovern, Linda Ronstadt and Carly Simon have all issued neoconservative albums, to blend right in with your Bennetts and Clooneys and Sinatras, while several talented young singers, such as Andrea Marcovicci, Mary Cleere Haran and Harry Connick Jr., actually seem to have been born that...
...apparently believed that popular discontent was sufficient to swing the citizenry to their side. Over the years, the officers had made little secret of their intentions or their motives, though no one paid much attention. Calling themselves the Bolivarian Military Movement, they pledged allegiance to the country's liberator, Simon Bolivar, and accused the government of being a corrupt "oligarchy" out of touch with the people...