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...Cambridge schools' Ball said he has not yet seen a copy of the recently filed complaint...
...complaint, filed in Middlesex Superior Court Wednesday by the office's civil rights division, has per-plexed the Cambridge Public Schools administration, which thought the case was closed...
...rated take on Isaac Bashevis Singer, who long ago quietly introduced readers to the subject of senior-citizen sex? Or is Roth's 21st book a strategically scandalous novel by a first-rate writer in a second-rate literary culture who needs another commercial success like Portnoy's Complaint to justify his advances? The issue is certainly complicated, but the fact remains that Roth has changed publishers as often as Dave Winfield has switched teams--and for the same reasons. Management gets tired of paying for past performance, but there is always a new front office that needs long-ball...
Sabbath's Theater demonstrates that Roth still has the power to shock and amaze, although it doesn't have the fresh manic energy of Portnoy's Complaint (1969), a novel that capitalized on the then popular literary subjects of Jewish Americans and psychoanalysis. The paganized, foul-tempered Mickey Sabbath is beyond all that. Some readers will find the material and language too scabrous for their taste. Others will have their own reasons to cry foul. Roth's old adversaries in the suburban Sanhedrin should have no beef: Mickey is not bad for the Jews; he is bad for everybody...
...slapped in handcuffs one evening by two white officers--simply because there had been some burglaries in the area. Once the cops established that I was a journalist for a newsmagazine, they apologized and released me, and I decided not to press the issue. I should have filed a complaint and insisted that it be acted...