Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holy Cross, which won its first game since 1968 in Cambridge last week, will have a more difficult task at Hanover. Dartmouth may have lost coach Bob Blackman and a bloc of lettermen, but there is plenty of talent left, and Jake Crouthamel has retained the Blackman system almost in its entirety...
...Uncle exuberantly rectifies the imbalance. To be sure, the parade of semi-and unclothed ladies seems to have entered from the centerfolds of sex tabloids; but the male star, for once, is neither the nude superman nor the furtive rascal familiar to devotees of Grove Press. Instead he is Jake Masters (Allen Garfield), a very raunchy and extremely paunchy victim of private eyestrain. Masters, whose favorite outfit is a pair of underpants, is the kind of detective who could lose a suspect in a phone booth. He gets out of breath cutting corners, hasn't enough hair to make...
...arrives in the form of his English accountant, Harry Stein, a spiteful little sex deviant and sometime blackmailer who cannot forgive his clients the indulgence that is reflected in the expense accounts he sweats over. Jake accepts Harry's envy as a judgment. When his entanglement with Harry lands him in the dock at the Old Bailey-wrongly accused of bizarre sexual offenses against a German au pair girl-he acquiesces in society's right to demand an accounting from him. To him, the trial is the rack on which his way of life is stretched...
...unsparing eye. At the London film colony's weekly softball game, the players' first wives come to jeer, and the scores and strikeouts have more to do with careers and sex than with the game. On Montreal's St. Urbain Street, while sitting in mourning for Jake's father, friends and relatives pass around vulgarities and insults along with the cake. Canadian intellectuals are "reared to believe in the cultural thinness of their own blood. Anemia is their heritage." In gum-gray England, the upper classes are "unaggressively handsome, that is to say, somewhat wanting, like...
Jewish Batman. If anything, the book is too rich in such details, almost bursting its seams with worked-up mots and comic turns. But it is strung together in the end by the quasi-poetic image of Jake's mysterious cousin Joey, the horseman of the title. Joey is a movie stuntman, baseball player and soldier of fortune whose vaguely charted wanderings seem to take in all the barricades, from Madrid in 1938 to Jerusalem in 1967. Jake, convinced that Joey is now in Paraguay pursuing the infamous Dr. Mengele of Auschwitz, also sees him as a kind...