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Kinflicks, in fact, is soaring in the slip stream of Fear of Flying, Erica Jong's bestselling hymn to the body electric. The novel proves again-if any doubters still remain-that women can write about physical functions just as frankly and, when the genes move them, as raunchily as men. It strikes a blow for the picara by putting a heroine through the same paces that once animated a Tom Jones or a Holden Caulfield. And it suggests that life seen from what was once called the distaff side suspiciously resembles the genitalia-centered existence that male novelists...
...other. For Marcus, the tropes and ambiguities of a writer's language furnish keys to the underlying meaning of his work, to the way his vision of society is actualized in imaginative form. But once Marcus has read between the lines and discerned the unconscious meaning of a slip or a peculiar turn of phrase, he does not stop there. The unconscious meaning of the text is not its ultimate meaning, allowing the text to be discarded once it has been obtained; rather it must be related to the author's intentions and project, since those are what mark...
...They slip into the college gymnasiums that dot the East coast from Harvard's IAB to the fastness of Orono, Maine and Buffalo with civilian anonymity and emerge from their solitary dressing rooms as marked...
...Sanders replaced Bob Harrison as Harvard's roundball coach three years ago, it was like replacing night with day. Harrison was a believer in the "win-at-all-costs" philosophy, one which won him too few victories for the talent with which he had to work and a resignation slip after the 1972-'73 campaign...
Simpson recalls that Spiro let it slip he had been to Harvard before, and that his name was now different from what it once had been. "He said he hadn't wanted to be associated with Agnew." Why he chose Jason Scott Cord still remains a mystery. Pavlovich told a friend after his arrest that if the newspapers thought the name had come from Jonas Scott Cord, a villain in Harold Robbins The Carpetbaggers, "that was fine," but untrue. No matter what the name, however--nobody suspected...