Word: rothe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...intrusive and potentially disruptive impact of television coverage on a court proceeding and its principal participants. The problem may be particularly delicate in rape cases, because the victim is often stigmatized, both by the assault and by defense strategies that portray her as a ready partner. Says Stephanie Roth of New York Women Against Rape: "Going through a rape trial can be like going through a rape again.'' Many attorneys and social activists claim that the intense national focus on the New Bedford trial has discouraged women from pursuing rape charges. Says Philadelphia Judge Lisa Richette: "This woman...
FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth ∙ A House in the Country, José Donoso ∙ Leaving the Land, Douglas Unger ∙ Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee ∙ Pitch Dark, Renata Adler ∙ The Salt Line, Elizabeth Spencer
...domain of farce. The comic artist had to support himself in the Soviet Union writing children's books. Now he has returned to adult fiction with gusto. His raunchiest work, Nikolai Nikolayevich, is a Russian Portnoy's Complaint. In Aleshkovsky's book, as in Philip Roth's novel, the hero spends most of his time masturbating. The Russian, however, finds an ingenious way to turn his obsession into a cushy government job when a Soviet laboratory purchases his prodigious production of spermatozoa for the greater glory of Communist science. In Kangaroo the author satirizes the false...
...these scenes of death and destruction in this watered-down version of what might have happened in WW II, seems to provide the actors with the energy to more completely fulfill their roles. Bullingrook (Bob Kane) was a better conquerer than a man exiled, and even the Queen (Stephanie Roth) gained color in the tumultuous scenes. Robert McCffesty, however, maintains an evenness of performance and fits perfectly into his role as King Kicked the minute he first adorns his crown, a baseball cap decorated with an eagle. At the end of the movie, he dynamically portrays the humility and grief...
FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth ∙The Collected Stories of Colette, edited by Robert Phelps Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee ∙Pitch Dark, Renata Adler The Salt Line, Elizabeth Spencer Shame, Salman Rushdie...