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...dealing with what he knew best: the politics and heartbreak of apartheid, the sour loneliness of race supremacy, and love shattered by cultural collision, and the moral and intellectual conflicts of exile. Jacobson is now 45, and he moved to England permanently in 1954. Three years ago after the tread on these original themes had begun to wear a little thin, Jacobson seemed to take a fresh fictional start and produced his best novel. Called The Rape of Tamar, it was an ironic retelling of the Old Testament scandal about King David's daughter whose half brother assaults...
...terms of creating an inspired, sensitive statement pornography can be an aesthetic, enlightened art form which does not exploit the body. But the editors of Playgirl and Viva generally tread the beaten path depicting men subduing or taking advantage of brainless sex kittens. One of Viva's photographic essays begins with a disheveled, slutty wench lying on the grass half-naked, touching and enjoying her body. An arrogant, supercilious gentleman approaches her and carries her home after sampling her wares. The following pictures show him in his bedroom nude, coyly fingering a whip, making love to the girl and ends...
...play is tricked out with melodramatic devices that keep it moving suspensefully, though often with a heavily ironic tread. Always fastidiously attentive to detail, Harold Prince has directed in the mode of stylized Expressionism, which helps mask gaping implausibilities in the writing...
...rejects, over-the-hillers, and rejuvenated hacks. Just like Nixon's White House squad. Allen's Redskins cheer themselves and pat themselves on the back when they succeed. Just like Nixon's men. Allen's Redskins sulk when they lose. Just like Nixon's men. Allen, the human re-tread wizard, has made a career of reviving worn-out careers. Nixon has been through it all before...
THESE METAPHORS held up when he was writing about himself, but with Marilyn, Mailer has tread over a few ethical lines that, if they aren't legally or morally reprehensible, do vitiate his professional powers...