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...that he sounded too much like a whining old Jew. From one of his own stories in this new collection, one gets the impression that Bashevis Singer isn't always well-liked. The story is about a New Year's party for Yiddish writers, and in this seemingly autobiographical sketch, the narrator/author says he has always hated such parties because "Leftists scolded me for failing to promote world revolutions. The Zionists reproached me for not dramatizing the struggle of the Jewish state and the heroism of its pioneers." And his hostess adds to this list of grievances when she says...
...hunt. Viewers have called the Yard with tips that lead to an average 100 arrests a year; the Yard credits the five-minute show with 71 arrests for the first six months of 1975. One woman was surprised, then terrified when she recognized a police artist's sketch as that of her lover. Seems he had hacked his wife into pieces and spread the remains over a golf course...
That's the amazing thing about this book--the same as the Saturday passing of the magazine around the lunch table. A cartoonist we've never met has caught the sense of our habits and quirks with a quick sketch and a line of prose. "Here's one for you," the saying goes--I've heard it and said it a thousand times...
...autopsy reviews confirm irrefutably that Kennedy was hit in the back of his neck. They ought to still the argument raised by a rough autopsy sketch in the Warren Commission report; prepared by Commander James J. Humes, it placed Kennedy's back wound too low to be consistent with the exit wound in his throat (partially obscured by a tracheotomy incision). The hole in Kennedy's suit jacket also had seemed too low. Since Kennedy was seen in the Zapruder film to be waving before he was first struck in the back of the neck, the experts believe...
...just a little quieter about it. At the first rehearsal the partners spar a little (Clark: "I heard your blood doesn't circulate." Lewis: "It circulates-not everywhere, but it circulates."), then get right down to the acrimony at hand. Clark tries to modify their most famous sketch. Lewis starts to act in all the ways Clark loved to hate: he spits and sprays on his way to a punch line; to make a point or a joke, he jabs his partner in the chest, using his finger like an inverted exclamation mark. Is this reunion really worth...