Word: roth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin) The title is ironic--a Philip Roth specialty. There is precious little rural peace and harmony in this scorching novel about a prosperous New Jersey couple whose good life is destroyed when their daughter becomes a '60s terrorist. In Roth's earlier novels, parents tended toward the comic and repressive. Not here. The author renders the Job-like suffering of a father and mother over a lost child with characteristic emotional force and verbal energy...
...Despite the multiple-house write-in campaign for the author Philip Roth, the committee was baffled by the suggestion when it was related to it. ("Philip...
...PHRASE] Allen is (and isn't) Philip Roth...
...What about the doctors? You always forget the doctors," said Micheline Mathews-Roth, an associate professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School and a participant in the spoof. "What about the patients...
Unfortunately, she represents that female so explicitly that the show seems hollow and calculated even by TV standards. Peter Roth, head of Fox Entertainment, says he asked Kelley to create a series with a strong female lead to fill the time slot after Melrose Place, which is popular among young women. In other words, the demographics came first, and the provenance shows. You feel as if Kelley gathered a list of themes from focus groups and then set about addressing them methodically and baldly. In one of the many declarations the show makes about its heroine--in case anyone missed...