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...productions of The Indian Wants the Bronx and Fool for Love have been jointly billed as "Cowboys and Indians," but add up to more than a Western flick. Both plays examine people who are trapped--Israel Horovitz's Indian depicts aimless juvenile delinquents who feel cornered by society, while Sam Shepard's Fool for Love examines lovers who cannot escape their incestuous relationship...
...trick of Doctorow's novel -- a meditation on '30s Mob boss Dutch Schultz -- was in its narrative voice. Young Billy, from Bathgate Avenue in the Bronx, was the ideal observer: a talisman for the gang, a kind of underworld groupie who is appreciative of their style and implicated in their actions but still one ironic step outside their souls, and who is ready to analyze every movement and moment in 484 pages of headlong streetwise orotundity and subordinate clauses even longer than this one. Tom Stoppard's script daringly dumps that voice (there is no voice-over narration) and puts...
...most terrible of the American ruins is slavery, folly of follies. It has left its living cinders all over the geographical and moral landscape: in the South Bronx and South Side Chicago, in bigoted hearts and in the despairs and self-contempt of those left in the ruins...
Neither team is on the verge of a dynasty the likes of the Bronx Bombers or the Big Red machine...
...BRONX, N.Y.--As Giardi goes, so goes the Crimson...