Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JACOB'S LADDER...
...Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is on a permanent bad-drug trip. This is conveyed in the hallucinatory manner of terrible 1960s movies. It turns out that the drug was administered to him, without his consent, by the government. The passages where this information is vouchsafed remind us of '70s paranoid thrillers. Since the drug was given to him in Vietnam (it was supposed to make everyone in his Army unit more aggressive), we are reminded of the '80s effort to come to terms with the war. And since at one point he is afforded a promising glimpse of the afterlife...
...Rhodes scholar who became a novelist once heralded as the "black Faulkner." But in 1976 the light began to darken. Wideman's younger brother Robert was convicted as an accomplice to a murder and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. Ten years later, the writer's 16- year-old son Jacob stabbed a camping companion to death and, like his uncle, was given a life term...
...contains the only known account from the ancient Middle East of the creation of woman -- six times as long as the story of Adam's advent from a "mud pie." Furthermore, the women of the Pentateuch (Eve, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Tamar, Zipporah) are strong; none of the men (Abraham, Jacob, Moses) are particularly good looking. Circumstantial evidence, but in an era of enhanced interest in feminist creativity, it is not very hypothetical to assume that Bloom's work will draw a wide and interested audience...
...Hartman doubled as a Montreal rabbi and a McGill University philosophy instructor. He didn't publish until he was 41 (he is now 58). "All that time I was just thinking," says Hartman -- which was just as well. His books and monographs are models of clarity. He writes "like Jacob wrestling with the angel," says the philosopher Michael Walzer. "He holds that experience no less than tradition can be a valid source of theological inspiration and that one need not be religious to be ethical...