Word: leonard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT. A work billed as one play by three authors, Israel Horovitz, Terrence McNally and Leonard Melfi, is merely an umbrella covering three disparate statements. The play, like fanners, is best in the "morning...
AUTOMOBILES are costly to buy and to maintain. Although motor-happy Americans are buying more and more of them (see following story), they have reason to cringe when it comes to repairing aged or ailing cars. As Economist William N. Leonard, a professor at Long Island's Hofstra University, told a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee last week: "No matter where you go for auto repairs, you run the risk of a fleecing. The automobile-service business has become a jungle for the consumer...
...right hand produces a steady, lilting melodic line that can flow from originals to classic themes-as in Chopin Prelude/ How Insensitive, which leads from an E minor prelude into a bossa nova favorite with a similar mood and melody. Pretty good for a 15-year-old. As Critic Leonard Feather puts it, by the time Craig Hundley is old enough to shave, he might well be the best-known pianist in jazz...
...tact, sadistic leather fetishists, a droning housewife is an aspiring nymphomaniac. After a number of legitimate laughs, McNally tries to be momentous in a conclusion about the necessity of love, but that message is articulated every week on Laugh-In: "Whatever turns you on . . ." Night is by Leonard Melfi, considered one of off-Broadway's emerging playwrights. At a pseudo-lyric funeral, a group mourns the loss of their blowhard leader. A new con-mannerist appears, spouting worthless dreams, and they all follow him off in a witless parody of resurrection...
...Slave & Birdbath--Two one-acters by LeRoi Jones and Leonard Melfi, respectively. Everyone knows about Mr. Jones, but few know about Mr. Melfi, a fine Cafe Le Mama playwright with a poet's heart. At the ATMA, 498 Tremont...