Word: whispers
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...hasn't stopped trembling from the last time he saw your high-calls-and low cuts. But, while popping the reverend's cork was fun, it wasn't enough. On the little screen, you're only supposed to suggest the risque--show a little leg, flaunt an alluring smile, whisper sweet some-things. On the big screen, you can live...
Since then, Sholom Aleichem has suffered a worse kind of obscurity: success. The ethnic narcissism of Fiddler on the Roof, based on his Tevye stories, has drowned his oeuvre in a chorus of If I Were a Rich Man and Sunrise, Sunset. The World of Sholom Aleichem attempts to whisper where Fiddler bellowed, to reclaim the writer from the ripoffs. But, as the Yiddish proverb has it, you can't pull two hides off one ox. The musical used Aleichem to carry the tunes; the material is now too depleted to carry an evening...
...After the Jews they are the people I love most." He talks in a smoky whisper. "First, because the white men came and made them suffer, and they didn't deserve that. Second, I love how brave they are. I sympathize with them." Asked if his sympathies go toward all oppressed peoples, he says yes, "if they are innocent, and if they are not against us." Asked specifically about the Palestinians, he answers that he is still trying to make up his mind about which side is right. Yet he is troubled by the fighting...
...felt compelled to whisper in his ear. "What's going on outside?" I asked...
...evidence of What I'm Going to Do, I Think (1969) and Beyond the Bedroom Wall (1975), Larry Woiwode is a writer worth listening to. Poppa John offers a great deal of noise and the whisper of a fine short story: an old man struggles to accept the long-ago death of his father, in preparation for facing his own. The novel's power lies here, at several removes from the small screen...