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In Simon and Garfunkel's song The Sound of Silence 1, there is the following passage in lyrics: And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made. What is this neon god? Obviously, they are referring to neon signs, but in what sense are neon signs "gods" and how exactly are people praying to them? Is this an attack on advertising or ...
Simon John Ritchie (10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979), better known by his stage name Sid Vicious, was an English musician, best known as the bassist for the punk rock band Sex Pistols.
Nov 30, 2019 · John Simon: Now That He’s Gone, the Image of the Critic as Hater May Have Died Out Too. By Owen Gleiberman. When the critic John Simon died last weekend, at 94, virtually every piece written...
Nov 25, 2019 · NEW YORK (AP) — John Simon, a theater and film critic known for his lacerating reviews and often withering assessment of performers’ physical appearance, has died. He was 94. Patricia Hoag Simon, Simon’s wife, said her husband died Sunday night at Westchester Medical Center.
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Cyberpunk goes beyond a mere aesthetic; it embodies a movement that intricately blends the legacies of the past with the possibilities of the future. To truly grasp the genre’s complexity, imagine viewing it through a turquoise-tinted lens: it offers a profound examination of our present reality by juxtaposing and magnifying the multifaceted interplay between technology,
Nov 27, 2019 · Simon’s uncompromising judgments translated into a ton of negative reviews of movies and performances, and in a career that spanned more than five decades it’s hardly surprising that some of them don’t hold up very well.
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Not only was John defenestrated from his high-rise column at New York, which was never again as important in theater criticism, he also lost his lofty aeries at venues ranging from Channel Thirteen and National Review to Bloomberg News and The New Leader.
