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...Singer's best friend is Henry Miller, who sent him The Tropic of Cancer in Hebrew: yet Singer is critical of the humor in Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint. "The humor which is there is not real humor." he said. "It's not a humor which comes from character or from situation. It's the humor of embarrassment. This humor of revealing things which are to be covered has become important in this generation, but it's not going to last because how much can you uncover? Once the toilet and the masturbation are already in the literature...
Jackass Penguins. Bathed in soft blue-green light, the five-story building's cavernous interior immediately evokes images of the world of water. Its 75 exhibits represent the full range of environments-fresh and salt, from arctic to tropic. Most of the ground floor is occupied by a large freshwater pool, swarming with such fish as gars, carps, catfish and sturgeons. It also contains an open enclave where several otters frolic in and out of the water. A few steps away are the first of 70 small tanks containing such varied and intriguing species as the colorful little clownfish...
...Customs Bureau office barred it as obscene. Readers found it shocking and scandalous. But since 1964, the courts and the public have acknowledged that it was only Henry Miller letting go his barbaric yawp over the rooftops of Paris. Today The Tropic of Cancer is available without prescription in drugstores all over America. And now, for anyone over 17, it is presented in motion-picture form, dirty words and all. Director Joseph Strick's last adaptation was Ulysses, which suffered not from infidelity to the text but from an insufficiency of imagination. In Tropic of Cancer, he again provides...
...when he published Tropic of Cancer, Miller could justly claim that he was 20 years ahead of his time. The film version, unhappily, is as many years behind-one more boozy, verbose old victim of the Lost Generation...
...soccer, wrestling and tennis, and finishing 216th in the class of 1952, a year after Aldrin. Not even Collins' closest friends at the academy knew until senior year that he was the nephew of General J. Lawton ("Lightning Joe") Collins, famed World War II commander of the 25th ("Tropic Lightning") Division on Guadalcanal, leader of the breakthrough at St.-L6 after the Normandy invasion, and later Army Chief of Staff...