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...Roth has reacted with high exasperation to suggestions that his novels document his life or reveal anything about him except his imagination. It hasn't helped his case, of course, that he has filled his best books (among them, Portnoy's Complaint, My Life as a Man and The Ghost Writer) with heroes who, like him, are brainy, funny, Jewish men -- usually writers -- with intense memories of Newark, New Jersey, childhoods. But Roth has argued all along, most elaborately and entertainingly in The Counterlife (1987), what ought to be -- and for some peculiar reason isn't -- a simple point: that...
...during most of the year, Lamont's first floor--not the entrance floor, but the floor two floors below the entrance floor--is like a ghost town. Students scarcely touch the tables and chairs, opting for Lamont's cozier upper floors for their scant studying needs...
...passive play returns to haunt Harvard, the Crimson could find itself staring at the upset ghost again...
...Goldberg won an Academy Award for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Ota May Brown in "Ghost...
Catching his breath after a rollicking version of Twenty Flight Rock, the aging icon jokes, "I'm too pooped to pop, man." But McCartney, 50, is hardly ready to give up the ghost of his creative past. After decades of distancing himself from the Beatles, he has in recent years embraced the music that made him famous, and on Up Close he cheerfully continues that trend. His renditions of Lennon-McCartney classics like Fixing a Hole, Lady Madonna and Michelle are enlivened by the unabashed enthusiasm of his band. And McCartney has never rocked harder than on the extended version...