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...altar Claude succumbs to a touch of Portnoy's complaint. He develops a ravenous appetite for his beautiful English teacher (Prudence Harrington) and abruptly decides that he has found true love. Barricades are formed by the relatives; insults and wounds are exchanged. But finally Claude and Isabelle discover that truce is beauty and end the war at a ritualistic nuptial feast...
...Portnoy's Complaint, Roth...
...Love Machine, Susann (1 last week) 2. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (2) 3. Ada, Nabokov (3) 4. The Godfather, Puzo (4) 5. Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut (6) 6. Except for Me and Thee, West (7) 7. The Andromeda Strain, Crichton (8) 8. The Goodbye Look, Macdonald 9. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (5) 10. Bullet Park, Cheever...
...much. As soon as I got home, I unnerved myself from two months of Cambridge with a bottle of wine and ten hours' sleep. As soon as I regained consciousness I grabbed a copy of Portnoy and tried to forget about the vagaries of scholarship I'd been pursuing and bury myself pleasurably in the contemporary experience...
...knowing that Miss Hart also doubles as the show's choreographer, I couldn't help but sympathize with her. One of my more Portnoy-esque childhood memories is of a kindergarten pageant where I, part of a chorus line, was supposed to dance the Irish jig. No matter how both my mother and the teacher pleaded, I could never manage the damn thing and botched it terribly. When this cast joins in a grand chorus line, all dancing--after just a few hesitations--pretty competently, I could really appreciate the achievement. The cast does less well with their brogues. None...