Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JANUARY SUN by Richard Stengel; Simon & Schuster; 202 pages...
...must redefine the center. It should be, he says, "the ever changing outcome of a continuing contest among social groups and ideas for the power to define public culture." Besides, he adds, many immigrants arrive committed to U.S. values; that is part of what attracted them. Says Julian Simon, professor of business administration at the University of Maryland: "The life and institutions here shape immigrants and not vice versa. This business about immigrants changing our institutions and our basic ways of life is hogwash. It's nativist scare talk...
...adage holds, that three hit shows can't cure. Actually, not much has been wrong this season anyway. Blockbuster survivors from prior years were joined last fall by four musicals and three plays that all seem securely established, and major new works by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Neil Simon and August Wilson are still to come. But in a five-day span leading into this week, the proverbial three hit shows materialized nonetheless, one after another, gladdening the Great White Way's chronic curmudgeons...
DECEPTION by Philip Roth; Simon & Schuster; 208 pages...
...Demme). Costner said no to Red October, and Baldwin got the job. Now he has a Woody Allen movie in the hopper. And after Prelude to a Kiss he will vacate his Manhattan apartment (where he lives alone after the breakup of a recent romance) to shoot Neil Simon's Marrying Man in Los Angeles. In the film he plays a satyric bachelor who falls in love with Kim Basinger on the eve of his wedding...