>Steve Perry:
>
>>it will play, exactly; i will
>>only say this: if you think that
>>"the jewish stuff is all wheels
>>within wheels and has no relevance,"
>>i suspect you haven't spent a lot
>>of time in the rural midwest or
>>the rural south. there is rarely
>>any occasion to take the measure
>>of popular anti-semitism in those
>>regions, but i think it remains
>>part of the culture.
>
>Just from personal experience here in the midwest, I've been struck by how
>many times I've heard "Shylock" used by acquaintances and strangers just
>this year.
The term enjoyed a resurgence, with Elmore Leonard's book and the film it inspired, "Get Shorty".
Reese