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...without one of the primary accompaniments -- a job. Teen unemployment is endemic among poor youth, running more than 40% in many communities. Meanwhile, welfare and social programs suffered drastic cutbacks during the Reagan era. Says Chicago psychiatrist Carl Bell: "Violence is the weapon of the powerless." Agrees Professor Leah Blumberg Lapidus of Columbia Teachers College in Manhattan: "It relieves boredom and makes a statement, like graffiti, that says, 'Notice...
...world. The 1977 off-Broadway cast included Glenn Close, Jill Eikenberry and Swoosie Kurtz. Her 1983 hit comedy, Isn't It Romantic, which ran for two years off-Broadway, is a thinly veiled tale of Wasserstein's relations with her own larger-than-life mother. But even here, Janie Blumberg, the playwright's alter ego, rejects a suffocating marriage with a very eligible doctor and utters Heidi-esque lines like "I made choices based on an idea that doesn't exist anymore." Still, the spirit of the play is more aptly conveyed by Janie's comically maladroit efforts to cook...
Awake and Sing, his first full-length play, is a leftist, Jewish melodrama, something that Chekhov would have written if he had grown up in the Bronx and been named Blumberg. It treads on ground that we seen many times before: the Berger apartment on the Grand Concourse looks just like Neil Simon's place in Brighton Beach, Woody Allen's old home under the roller coaster at Coney Island, and even Alexander Portnoy's house of horrors in Newark. But this is not nostalgia; the fuzzy sentimentalism of memory is replaced here with a genuine anger, and even...
Skaters slated to perform in the November 1-3 exhibition include U.S. men's champion and world bronze medalist Brian Boitano, U.S. pairs champions Peter Oppegard and Jill Watson, and world pairs bronze medalists Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert...
...fall of the Eppinger Prize came as a shock to past recipients of the award, a number of whom are Jewish. "If someone had told me that the award honored a man who had this past, I would not have accepted it," says former Prizewinner Baruch Blumberg of Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. But little was said about Eppinger, according to Blumberg, when he was awarded his prize in 1973. Apparently, even less was asked. -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by James Graff/Freiburg and Laura López/ New York