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...INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX and IT'S CALLED THE SUGAR PLUM are one-acters marking the propitious off-Broadway debut of 28-year-old Israel Horovitz. Plum is an absurd love waltz between a boy and girl. Bronx boils up a cauldron of terror with the litter of abused humanity, as two street punks ridicule, badger, and finally knife to death a bewildered East Indian on his first day in New York City...
...INDIAN WANTS THE BRONX and IT'S CALLED THE SUGAR PLUM are one-acters marking the propitious off-Broadway debut of 28-year-old Israel Horovitz. Plum is an absurdist love waltz between a boy and a girl. Bronx boils up a cauldron of terror with the litter of abused humanity, as out of sheer desperate boredom, two street punks ridicule, badger, and finally knife to death a bewildered East Indian on his first day in New York City...
...often as they win the tenor. Lower-voiced mezzo-sopranos, on the other hand, usually end up on the limelight's fringes, portraying a disappointed rival or a sister-and wishing they were sopranos. As a result, the soprano field tends to be overcrowded. Two decades ago, Bronx-born Regina Resnik, a dramatic soprano with a rich lower range, found the field so overcrowded that even her widely recognized abilities were not taking her to the top. "I was just a talented youngster compared with the great divas of the time," she says. "I sang the second Elsa...
Louis Block, 58, a retired fireman, had suffered a succession of heart attacks while he ran a radio-TV business in The Bronx. His heart grew bigger but weaker, causing a corresponding lung deterioration. Block was referred to Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center, where Surgeon Adrian Kantrowitz had already attempted the transplant of a baby's heart (TIME...
...this device to magnify the fact that the viewer is being confronted with another human being," explains Leslie. A slight, loquacious, onetime physical-culture enthusiast from The Bronx, he abandoned a successful career as an abstractionist in 1960 because "modern art had, in a sense, killed figure painting. Painting the figure had become the most challenging subject an artist could undertake...