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SALMAN ("DON'T GIVE OUT MY ROOM NUMBER") RUSHDIE AGE: 50 OCCUPATION: Long-winded novelist BEST PUNCH: In the Guardian, Rushdie, still upset that Le Carre wondered if stores shouldn't carry his book for fear of bombings, called him "an illiterate pompous...
JOHN ("I MISS THE COLD WAR") LE CARRE AGE: 66 OCCUPATION: Snooty spy novelist BEST PUNCH: Le Carre, who originally wrote the Guardian to defend himself against anti-Semitism charges, retorted that Rushdie was "self-canonizing" and "arrogant...
Mamet's clipped, macho, Ping-Pong dialogue still has a good deal of satiric punch. ("How's Laurie?" "Fine." "Yeah, but how is she, though?") Scott Zigler has directed with haunting spareness. And the acting is top-notch, particularly Patti LuPone, feisty and funny as Jolly. But raiding the memory bank has made Mamet lazy. His plays have never been much concerned with plot, but The Old Neighborhood has no forward propulsion at all. Bobby spends most of the time staring off into the distance, head cocked slightly, as if groping for memories, meaning, connection. So are we. Because...
...strong, however, that Dionysos easily tricks him into dressing as a woman so he can observe the possessed women safely. In a cruel twist of divine intervention, Pentheus's own mother, Agave, leads the Bacchae in decapitating him with their bare hands. She returns to Thebes, proud as punch of her actions, but her enraged father Kadmos soon forces the truth before her disbelieving eyes...
...conversations with similar punch lines occurred time and again, it became clear that among my family members and friends there are more than a few bagel experts--individuals who have come to see themselves as the food's self-appointed defenders and trustees. It's as though they've all secretly swore an oath of regional loyalty, one which bars them from acknowledging the integrity of any foreign product. Eventually my sister entered the debate, breaking the deadlock and introducing a sensible if still questionable explanation for discrepancies in bagel quality: bagels are best if boiled, she intoned...