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...share the same fax machine.) We do not care whether reading letters not addressed to him was legal or not, and would like to refer the students to a higher ethical and moral law, one instituted in Germany a thousand years ago by Rabbenu Gershom ben Judah Ma'or Ha'golah who called for a herem, a ban, to be imposed on those who read other peoples' letters. The Staff of the Semitic Museum (until December...
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man famously begins, "Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road . . ." Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Viking; 282 pages; $20.95) opens this way: "We were coming down our road." The echo sounds intentional, as if Doyle, with fine Irish fatalism, knows that all books about Dublin's seedy, seething street life carry the curse of invidious comparison with the works of the master. Why not invoke it at the top and then...
This maneuver may be unduly superstitious, particularly since Doyle, 35, has been thriving in Joyce's shadow. His first three novels earned impressive reviews and sales, and two of them -- The Commitments and The Snapper (see CINEMA) -- have received successful screen adaptations. And in October, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha won the Booker Prize, Britain's most highly trumpeted literary award. Thanks to the publicity attendant upon the Booker, U.S. readers get the chance to buy Doyle's fourth novel now instead of next April, when it was originally scheduled to cross the Atlantic...
...Shoot for the Contents," with Trinh T. Minh-ha in person, at 7:30 p.m. A unique excursion into the maze of allegorical naming and storytelling in China...
Lawrence shrugs off criticism. "Cosby's gonna do his thing, and I'm gonna do mine," he says. "Whichever one makes you laugh, you take it and enjoy , it." Lawrence's just-say-ha attitude is the result of an upbringing that wasn't a lot of laughs. His father, a sergeant in the Air Force, divorced his mother when he was eight. The family moved around a lot, with stops in Brooklyn, New York, and Landover, Maryland. "Sometimes you gotta laugh to keep from crying," says Lawrence's sister (and personal assistant) Rae Proctor. "We were poor. Mother raised...