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Even the dialogue seems abstracted, drained of felt emotion. Ira's immigrant relatives say book-talk things like "Woe is me" and "I would spit in his face, if I could but see him." Memories of his past have obviously obsessed Roth for most of his adult life, but he no longer seems willing -- as he did so memorably in Call It Sleep -- to let his readers experience and savor them firsthand. Perhaps when later volumes of Ira's story appear, the place of this first long chapter in the grand design will be clearer. For now, the book...
Virtually every movie is reshaped during editing, but has any musical ever had its songs removed after the picture was shot? The surgery threatened to upset the delicate texture of the story, the balance of personalities, that Brooks always seeks. "The ripple effect drove me crazy," he says. "You spit in the water and cause a tidal wave." And few films have been so avidly, publicly scrutinized while its director was trying to fix things. "It's antithetical to everything you need to do your job," Brooks says. "There's a time when you gotta close the door...
ROAST THE EXECUTIVE STAFF OF THE HARVARD STUDENT TELEPHONE OFFICE ON A SPIT UNTIL THEY BEG FOR MERCY...
Sarah, an 11-year-old who played second base for one team I coached, was the perfect counterexample to the "fairer sex" stereotype. Sarah would fling her body at ground balls that seemed out of her reach, spit, and power long drives into left-center field for extra-base hits...
...Crimson wanted to box, the Big Red wanted to slug it out, and at the end, both teams looked like buckets of warm spit...