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This is an attempt at a hard-hitting racial melodrama. From Joe Roth, the director of “Christmas With the Kranks” and “America’s Sweethearts...
Directed By Joe Roth...
...PLOT AGAINST AMERICA PHILIP ROTH When Charles Lindbergh was elected President in 1940, it spelled trouble for the Roth family of Newark, N.J. The fictional President Lindbergh is an anti-Semite who appeases Hitler and casts the country into a dark, angry nightmare of riots and forced relocations, and the pressure divides Roth's family as well as the nation. This bizarro counterhistory isn't an allegory, and it makes no easy political points. It's cold, clear and frighteningly plausible...
...Operation Shylock by Philip Roth. The uncontested master of comic irony comes up with another ticklish situation: a writer named Philip Roth journeys to Israel to confront a Philip Roth imposter who is trying to persuade Jews to go back to Europe and re-establish Yiddish culture. This new Diaspora aims to avert an Arab-engineered Holocaust by returning Israelis to the countries of their ancestors. Seriously funny about Middle East madness, Roth riffs with an abandon not seen since Portnoy's Complaint...
...good wins on top of that, it can only help to propel her onward into the spring.” Junior Cindy Chu made it to the finals of the consolation Flight A singles bracket of the tournament. Chu defeated Princeton’s Joanna Roth in a semifinal tiebreak, but could not get past Angela DiPastina of Ohio State in the final. The team of Chu and freshman Catriona Stewart was the Crimson’s only entrant in the doubles draw. The pair, seeded no. 2, advanced to the semifinals before again running into Ohio State. DiPastina...