Mr. Simon's reflexive reliance on tick-tock punch-line comedy is the most dated aspect of his plays, especially the darker ones that he wrote in his later years.

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Congress in 1965 required that all cigarette packages carry warning labels, ones that were made under the surgeon general's name five years later.

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They usually behave like popular fashions, like the ones in design or clothing: they come and go, and sometimes reappear many years later under a slightly different guise.

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