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...Muslims believe the Ka'ba is the spot where Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Ishmael at God's command." According to Genesis 22:2, it was Isaac whom Abraham prepared to sacrifice. Have the Muslims decided that it was Ishmael, not Isaac, whom Abraham prepared to sacrifice...
...this man? And why are these people doing these terrible things, if not always to him, then always in his shocked presence? His name is Isaac Davis, and he is directed by, played by and created by Woody Allen (with the assistance of his co-writer and friend, Marshall Brickman). Davis is the central character in Allen's new movie, Manhattan, and to put the matter simply, he is the mainspring of a masterpiece that is that perfect blending of style and substance, humor and humanity that his friends and followers were convinced he would one day make...
...example, the sexual clown, the man who used to do jokes about making obscene telephone calls to a girl, "collect," has now disappeared. Isaac Davis has his troubles with women, but he presents himself as a man who has "never had any trouble finding women." At the center of the film there is his relationship with a teen-age girl daringly presented in idealistic terms, an affair the old Allen would have made a guilty joke about and passed quickly over. Now he makes some guilty jokes but stays around to explore the affair and its meaning with tenderness...
...love for Davis. His obsession with the age difference between them is something more than a bow to conventional morality; it is a convenient excuse for avoiding commitment. But while all the other characters are complicating their lives with excesses of cerebration, she is the one who offers to Isaac a reasonable definition of love: "We have laughs to gether. I care about you. Your concerns are my concerns. We have great...
NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ Albert Camus, Herbert R. Lottman Confessions of a Conservative, Garry Wills ∙ In Memory Yet Green, Isaac Asimov ∙ The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald ∙ The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris To Build a Castle-My Life as a Dissenter, Vladimir Bukovsky