Word: showing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Observers believe the objective of the enemy attacks is more political than military--an attempt to wring concessions at the Paris peace talks by a revived show of force...
...editorials face one of the most critical and best-informed audiences in the country each morning, and when our readers don't like what we say, they tell us. If you have something you'd like to say, come tell us about it. We might be able to show you better ways to put your ideas in writing, and you might give us better ideas...
PORTNOY himself calls it "The Alexander Portnoy Show!" He's the standup comedian out to tell the definitive Jewish joke. He is also the talented son, risen to the post of Assistant Commissioner for the City of New York Commission on Human Opportunity. His parents--"the two outstanding producers and packagers of guilt in our time"--are the expected, overprotective Jewish mother and her long-suffering, constipated husband (whose constipation seems to rival Luther's in cosmic significance.) Togther they praise and badger Portnoy until he finds himself in a paradoxical position: his family considers him among "princes . . . and saviours...
...mother Sophie reappears, another bit of horror is added. Portnoy justifies it all by saying she wears "the old self-conscious on her sleeve!" In any case, she soon seemed to me more like the witch out of Disney's Snow White than anyone else (which only serves to show where my first conscious remembrance of fear lies.) Along the way, there is lots of exaggeration, a veritable thesaurus of recrimination...
...Number One Psychedelic Nite Spot draws some junior high kids whose parents belong to Oceanside Country Club and to the Palmetto Club Juniors. (Mom or Dad let off Flea and Susy about nine on Main Street, and pick 'em up in their Toronado halfway through the Johnny Carson show. They couldn't have done that when the bikies ran the "Q," but there haven't been any busted lips or broken chairs for a couple of years since the town started shooting speed away from the Speedway.) Gayle was nice, she was going to be editor of the school yearbook...