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...mean Singer, the anti-hero of Gilbert Rogin's new comic novel, whose wife peeks out shyly from under the closet door while he ponders what his life, if any, may mean...
...plot is a simple one. David Konrad (simianly played by Elliot Gould), a sexually unbalanced German-American Jewish professor from London arrives in Sweden, finds Karin Bloch (Bibi Andersson) pining in a convalescent home coat closet and falls haplessly in love. To complete the obligatory triangle, the too-busy husband, Andreas (acted, Thank God! by Max von Sydow), makes an occasional phone call or brilliant goodbye on his way to and from the hospital. He is a surgeon, by the way, not an invalid; we see Elliot Gould sprawled in a graveyard, and the claim, at least, is that...
...Appeals in Florida, Roney has not served as a judge long enough to establish a reputation. A former member of the board of governors of the Florida Bar Association, he had no prior judicial experience. Still, he does not seem to have Carswell-style racist skeletons in his closet. At the time of his appointment, according to a Florida civil rights worker, "we did everything we could to find something on the man, and we couldn't come up with a damn thing...
...scrape against one another, again and again, to come up with decisions that, ideally, at least five can agree on. In that process, one or two exceptional minds can make a considerable difference since the amount of cross-pollination is extensive. Every Friday during the term, the Justices closet themselves in a conference room and engage in what must be the most exciting weekly exchange of ideas in the Western world, verbally thrashing out the points at issue in current cases. Drawing on these discussions, the Justices then work independently on their assigned opinions, but early drafts are regularly circulated...
...Daniel Hirsh is a homosexual and a Jew, a loner by birth, design and inclination. He accepts the position he holds in British life (that of a well-to-do bourgeois with private passions locked firmly in the closet), while rejecting both the gay life or the commitments an observant Judaism would demand. What he loves are culture, (mostly refined) pleasure, and a bisexual named Bob Elkin...