Word: portnoy
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...after your first few visits. A black Santa, or a Santa with a big nose and a Grand Concourse address just wouldn't have been satisfactory. And what if you were Jewish? Don't you wonder why this nice man missed Chanukah every year and then arrived on Christmas? Portnoy missed the point in his complaint...
Gordon defended the book against charges of pornography and contrasted it with another best selling novel. "Portnoy's Complaint is about masturbation, but there's nothing in Love Story but a few four letter words. It's the story of Romeo and Juliet at Harvard...
...went innocently to take a midnight bath in the third floor bathroom of Barnard Hall. There before me I found an absolutely unknown naked man masturbating in the tub. Go ahead and laugh, if you like. Of course there's something a bit comical about the scenario, shades of Portnoy or of Bruce Jay Friedman. Even more comical to remember that some girl in the dorm, a transfer student with more than the ordinary romantic-absurdist delusions about Harvard men, had seen the naked stranger wandering around the dorm all evening, but figured that he was only someone's boyfriend...
...orthopedic harness. In Mrs. Wallop, the grotesque is thoroughly housebroken by De Vries' mastery of the instruments of parody. Literary styles and genres are lampooned, and holy cows milked. But Mrs. Wallop is really a response to the literary mother knockers, from Euripides (Medea) to Philip Roth (Portnoy's Complaint...
Last week Judge André Rouanet de Vigne-Lavit rejected Portnoy's request for a court order to change the name of Roth's hero, but he did suggest that Armand's next step might be to seek damages. Portnoy has not yet decided whether to pursue the action...