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From both final exams and spring formals I derive an almost perverse delicious satisfaction at the immolation of my soul. In the first, I am reminded of the futility of a semester's worth of academic nose-grinding. In the other, my utter incompetence at romance is gleefully rubbed in...
The book is a series of garrulous letters that he writes to a friend in Australia. He favors words like ludic and trots out gambits like "Her eyes are like Indian groceries. That's to say, they're open." Yet Richard yearns to influence his wife's work. Her latest...
The same loss-leader economics applies to all direct mail -- for magazines, delicious cheese products, whatever. In addition to the solicitation costs, commercial operations actually have to supply you with the product after you've signed up (and often a calculator or telephone or small sports car as a premium...
The talking-head format allows Roth to play to his strengths of critical intelligence and pitch-perfect ear. Few writers can touch him when it comes to the illusion of natural dialogue or the comic possibilities latent in high- mindedness. Deception is not a full orchestration of Roth's abilities...
Watching Meryl Streep as Mary Fisher, romance novelist, is like seeing Margaret Thatcher play the horse in a Christmas pantomime -- and with delicious style. The great gray lady of movie drama brings her precise acting tools to a comedy of manners, flouncing wittily onto a couch, exhaling every word in...