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...ELLIOTT PORTNOY, 31; WASHINGTON; attorney...
...Portnoy founded K.E.E.N. (Kids Enjoy Exercise Now). The weekly program pairs volunteer coaches with mentally and physically handicapped athletes for activities such as tennis, soccer and basketball. It has served more than 150 children with the help of 400 volunteers. Says Portnoy: "Some parents act as round-the-clock caregivers. One mother told me she wanted to watch a session because 'it's the first time I've ever seen anyone enjoy being with my child...
...love] what binds all these couples we know together--the ones who even bother to let themselves be bound? ...Please, let us not bull__ one another about "love" and its duration. --Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint...
Even the most casual readers of Philip Roth's fabulously inventive novels, those slyly tangled weavings of fiction and autobiography, can get some sense that the author might not make an ideal mate. An unforgettable lover, perhaps; a witty dinner companion, absolutely. But Roth, as Alexander Portnoy's psychoanalyst might put it, clearly has some "issues" about women...
...SABBATH'S THEATER by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) explores the beginnings of geezerhood (Roth's resolutely obnoxious hero, Mickey Sabbath, is a randy 64) with some of the same comic sexual energy that set readers goggling in Portnoy's Complaint. Sabbath is an ex-puppeteer whose present occupation is perfecting his scabrous personality. As he searches his disorderly past for meaning, largely without success, he is an equal-opportunity boor, richly offensive to women, men, Jews and Gentiles. Yet the result is a brilliantly written character, rampaging through a novel about facing death in a lonely...