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...assay of Henry Miller. More than 40 years ago, when it was bold to praise Tropic of Cancer, George Orwell wrote that Miller's value lay in his very ordinariness: " 'The average sensual man' has been given the power of speech, like Balaam's ass." That is not an inconsiderable gift, but Mailer will not be content with it. To him, "one has to take the English language back to Marlowe and Shakespeare before encountering a wealth of imagery equal in intensity...
...days of glory are over--at least for the moment--for both teams, who realize they're gonna have to haul ass to get back in the race. And while there's still along way left to go and, as Yogi said, the race ain't over until it's over, both clubs must reverse some pretty horrendous playing thus far. It's going to be tough...
...minutes. Instead its makers subject the audience to poking fun at homosexuals clumsily designed to provoke raucous laughter. See if you can contain yourself. Benson asks his chief, "Why did you choose me?" The chief responds, "Because you're a good cop.. and 'cause of your cute ass." An aging homosexual tells Benson and Kerwin, "You have got to stick it through. Hang on tight, tight, tight," Benson tells his partner." "Those two faggots look alike. All faggots look alike." The two follow a suspect into a supermarket. While Benson watches diligently, Kerwin busies himself with detergents...
...Boston Globe. He gives himself the perfect tough-guy target--a wimpy prison bureaucrat who mouths the tired liberal dogma about "rehabilitation," Oh. Higgins destroys the wimp alright, but just when we expect the sermon about how the only thing dese guys understands is a kick in the ass. Higgins surprises us. And the worldly warden says, "my way wasn't very successful either' And he adds...
...will punish what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came out of Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have, do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. (1 Samuel...