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This question, and the dramatic manner in which it has been raised in recent months, has hit the American Jewish community hard and has made it clear that we are wandering in a moral desert. Confronted with reports of atrocities on the West Bank, American Jews find their liberal sympathies in conflict with their Jewish identity...
...last novel, Witches of Eastwick, Updike eschewed the first person, using the next best thing: restricted third person narration. Feminists objected to the complete mystification Updike demonstrated towards women in that novel, as he ascribed to them all manner of extraordinary, supernatural abilities. Updike's direct assumption of the female voice in S. is at the very least a gutsy move, a bridging of what Marilynne Robinson called his "perplexed and fascinated distance," from the lives of women...
Even more cruelly ironic is the tax proposal of the Peterson plan. Peterson advises raising taxes only in a manner that would discourage consumption and encourage savings and investment. In the tradition of Reagan and his supplyside philosophies, this would shift the tax burden from the rich to the poor, assuming that the rich will invest it in ways that build the economy...
...final entrant, apparently, in the current surge of voyaging voyeurs, Trips is trying a different style and message. Call it discomfort chic. Published by the khaki-clothing chain Banana Republic, Trips is for the wanderlusty adventurer accustomed to sharing hotel space with all manner of wildlife. Editor in Chief and Banana Republic Founder Mel Ziegler, a former newspaper reporter, dismisses most travel writing as "dull and antiseptic" and describes his entry as the equivalent of a "bunch of friends at a dinner table swapping really good travel tales." The inaugural issue has more ads for Jeeps than jewels...
Probably too much was expected of Lacroix. He propelled all manner of blinding prints down the runway and showed some inventive accessories, like the kind of mirrored purses backpackers bring back from Third World suqs. But the strain showed too. Some outfits, like a short ballerina-style skirt with a removable poofy apron, suggested that Lacroix was already feeling the weight of his considerable reputation and that it had already got too heavy just to shrug off. He was meeting his own standard, but not besting himself. He was, in a sense, just like every other designer this year: struggling...