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...suffocate children with well-meaning dictums and chicken soup, while wives and daughters had the leisure to morph into superficial, whiny consumers. At least, that was how the situation was presented by Jewish male writers and artists, Davidson noted. The scholar counts Phillip Roth, Herman Wouk and later Woody Allen and Jerry Seinfeld, among those who introduced and popularized such stereotypes concerning Jewish women in American culture...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: More Than Words | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...Woody Allen (Deconstructing Harry) Sleeper, for banana-colored things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pieces | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...your review! This year's thickly lush crop (see the greenery! TOUCH IT!) of art-brand-name directors (Scorsese, Allen, et al) promises to distract you with sometimes sub-par, sometimes legit current works. But what of their pasts? Forthwith some recs, gentle bleeder, color-coded for your convenience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pieces | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...James Allen Johnson's March 9 editorial on the virtues of capitalism was a hilarious but depressing example of what happens when gullible undergraduates apply the toys we are given in Social Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics" (Ec 10) to the real world. What is taught in Ec 10 has the dubious virtue of being very, very simple. As Johnson went to such offensive lengths to point out, "(a)nyone who has learned to spell the word economics should understand this theory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Danger of 'Ec 10' | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...ALLEN is suing an old man for $12 million, charging him with libel. After reading in the National Enquirer the account of a 71-year-old ex-film librarian named Henry Armstrong in which he described the day he allegedly got run over by Allen and his Ferrari, Allen filed suit, upset that Armstrong's quotes ("He was bleary-eyed and unsteady on his feet, and he never said, 'Sorry.'") made him sound drunk. Armstrong, upset that Allen ran him over, has filed a suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 16, 1998 | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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