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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...
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...
...than me?" And the answer is, the bosses of the major film studios. Compared with them, Stallone and his fellow summer-movie heroes--those mean-eyed, pumped-up, epigram-expectoratin' cinema studs--are prissy little honor-roll students. The real tough guys are fellows named Semel and Pollock and Roth; their battlefield is the summer calendar; they show their guts by slotting their big pictures to open in just the right week in hopes of killing the competition. This is the art of war, New Hollywood-style...