Word: roth
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...this a Jewish-style version of John Updike's best-selling Couples? An X-rated take on Isaac Bashevis Singer, who long ago quietly introduced readers to the subject of senior-citizen sex? Or is Roth's 21st book a strategically scandalous novel by a first-rate writer in a second-rate literary culture who needs another commercial success like Portnoy's Complaint to justify his advances? The issue is certainly complicated, but the fact remains that Roth has changed publishers as often as Dave Winfield has switched teams--and for the same reasons. Management gets tired of paying...
Sabbath's Theater demonstrates that Roth still has the power to shock and amaze, although it doesn't have the fresh manic energy of Portnoy's Complaint (1969), a novel that capitalized on the then popular literary subjects of Jewish Americans and psychoanalysis. The paganized, foul-tempered Mickey Sabbath is beyond all that. Some readers will find the material and language too scabrous for their taste. Others will have their own reasons to cry foul. Roth's old adversaries in the suburban Sanhedrin should have no beef: Mickey is not bad for the Jews; he is bad for everybody...
MORRIS (MICKEY) SABBATH is a 64-year-old former puppeteer with a prostate gland that belongs in the urology hall of fame. In addition, the randy creation of Philip Roth's new comic novel, Sabbath's Theater (Houghton Mifflin; 451 pages; $24.95), is an Olympic-class misanthrope, an example of homo invectus so addicted to wrath that he rejects suicide on the ground that "everything he hated was here...
...more significant for the country, Tumulty says, is the expected vacancy once Packwood forfeits the chairmanship of the powerful Senate Finance committee. "Every single important issue in the fall -- welfare reform, tax cuts, Medicare and Medicaid -- has to come through that committee. Senator Bill Roth of Delaware, the vice chairman, is a weak second. This leaves Bob Dole with three jobs: running for President, running the Senate, and running the Senate Finance Committee...
Morris (Mickey) Sabbath is a 64-year-old former puppeteer with a prostate gland that belongs in the Urology Hall of Fame. In addition, the randy creation of Philip Roth's new comic novel (Houghton Mifflin; 451 pages; $24.95), is an Olympic-class misanthrope, an example of homo invectus so addicted to wrath that he rejects suicide on the ground that "everything he hated was here." "Roth still has the power to shock and amaze, although he's lost some of the fresh manic energy of 'Portnoy's Complaint' (1969)," notes TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "Some readers will find...