Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are no arias and no story. Instead a cast of 27 moves through a series of pictorial events set to the instrumental and vocal music of Philip Glass. A leading composer of the trance school of American music, Glass, 38, suggests in his work both Indian ragas and Bach preludes. Brief modular melodies expand and contract with soothing tidal regularity...
Twenty days ago, Israel Horovitz's play "Indian Wants the Bronx" played at the Loeb...
...Indian Wants the Bronx", one of Horovitz's most famous plays, is about two street-wise teenagers who violently tease an Indian at a New York City bus stop...
Buffalo Tongue. The book is a social history of New World food from Indian pemmican and succotash to the TV Dinner. Its basic approach is a soup-to-nuts chronology, including chapters on restaurants, drinking habits and "The Great American Sweet Tooth." Sweetness, the authors argue, is a dominant flavor on the national palate, partly traceable to England where treacle tarts are frequently washed down with heavily sugared tea. The Pilgrim forebears sat down to Thanksgiving dinners that were liberally drenched in maple syrup...
...gave Americans their insatiable meat tooth-they average nearly 200 lbs. a year per person. Even the once numerous Hudson River sturgeon were called "Albany beef." With woods and waters full of food, many early settlers found little incentive to farm. Besides, farms were fixed targets for marauding Indians. Pigs, which foraged for themselves, were easier to raise. As a result, by the 19th century salt pork became a staple at breakfast, lunch and supper. With the exception of Indian corn and potatoes, fruits and vegetables tended to be shunned as unhealthful, the principal cause of gastroenteritis...