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...WORST Peepee Poopoo! Movies have been regressing for ages, but this year they went totally infantile. How many potty jokes can you stuff into a shrill "kids'" film like Doctor Dolittle or Rugrats? Enough to make toddlers giggle, parents groan and critics fret about the millennial devolution of cinema...
...running modern philosophical commentary by the articulate and learned Calasso ("Is there any part of literary history Calasso isn't familiar with?", you may ask yourself by the end of this book) on the bizarre and sometimes grotesque events of the stories. Two birds are killed with one tome (groan), in a sense: on the one hand there is the excitement of these ancient and unusual non-Western tales; on the other hand, there is that intriguing way of approaching the tales that a Western end-of-the-millenium audience can't help but love...
What Zuckerman/Roth does with this imagined material is constantly mesmerizing. Library shelves groan under the weight of books published about the witch hunts and blacklistings during the Truman and Eisenhower presidencies, but it would be hard to find one among them that presents as nuanced, as humanly complex an account of those years as I Married a Communist. Nathan, for example, learns from Murray that Ira was a victim of the mania of his times but not an innocent one. He was a dedicated communist who lied to everyone, including Nathan's father, about his adherence to the dictates...
...tell myself as I groan out of a chaise in response to my son's "Dad, wanna play catch?" He is our third, the last in a line of catch players, the two before him having grown up and out. We stand about 20 m apart. He gives me the better glove, and we begin...
...that time of the year again. May has finally rolled around, and while the rest of the world is enjoying the light and warmth, Harvard students are greeting the darkness that is the cavernous campus library system. Moan, groan. In honor of Gwen 'Spicy' Shen's motto "always look at the bright side," here is a list of 10 reasons to be happy...