Word: boye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sugar Plum, he has written about a meeting between a coed artist and the boy who had run over and killed her finance with his car. The whole thing is ludicrous in a Murray Schisgal sort of way; no sooner does the girl arrive, indignant over the death of the man she loved, than she sets out to make it with the killer...
...loved one (she keeps talking about how she misses her fiance's "hands on her breasts") seethe with phony sentimentality. And when she falls in love with her new acquaintance, she does it with a wide-eyed bogus innocence that is just right. (On hearing that the boy has a job carting meat, she stares right at him and says, "I adore meat. I think it's really wonderful that you handle meat. Meat is the essence of life." It's at once credible, absurd, and hilarious...
...while Miss Schuck keeps up her half of Sugar Plum, the other and more important half just isn't there. The boy she meets is at the heart of Horovitz's piece; here is a kid who wants to be sensitive, wants to be a poet, wants to be in love. True, he is awkward and amusing (He writes poetry he does not understand, paraphrased from Zen poets), but he is also a human being. As performed by David Pollock, though, he is a silly comic prop--a cardboard version of Art Carney's Ed Norton characterization...
...concertizing of his own. How could he, when he was 14 at the time of his first lesson? His first lesson as a teacher, that is. When he talks about his childhood in Moscow, he says only that he was the son of an Armenian cotton merchant, a shy boy who wanted to be a concert violinist. But after his teacher sent him a ten-year-old pupil of his own, Galamian discovered that he had an even deeper instinct for teaching. By the time he settled in Paris at the age of 21, his lessons were so much...
...still wishes Bruce had gone into dentistry). A listener can even hear the chatter of Debbie's teeth as she is driven to the hospital. Finally, with Bruce exhorting her in the delivery room ("Push, push, push") and Debbie's face twisted, she gives birth to a boy in full view of the camera. "Oh, my God," he mutters...