Word: cauldrons
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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...
Some of the other more interesting pieces include: a pleasantly simple cauldron of the eighth century B.C. that combines utility and decoration in smooth, clean lines, a magnificent portrait head of Alexander the Great, a seventeenth century jade ewer inlaid with gold and set with rubies and emeralds, intricate and enormous carpets, miniaturist painting and goldware of the second millennium...
...relief. The dramatist compressed some seventeen years into the space of a few months. More than any of the other tragedies, Macbeth moves unswervingly and swiftly, without unnecessary padding, from start to finish; and any cut removes something valuable. Yet Houseman has removed sizable chunks (including the incredibly fabulous cauldron recipe of the Witches), and even transplanted a portion of Act II into Act IV. Lay off, Houseman--hold, enough...
What's new on the best seller list these days? For one thing, there is an old-fashioned witches' tale in a modern cauldron. At the start of Rosemary's Baby, Author Ira Levin (who wrote the stage version of No Time for Sergeants and the mystery novel A Kiss Before Dying), sets the tone with the question "Is Satan dead?" He then proceeds to create suspense by operating on the theory that a little Catholic guilt can go a long...