In his early plays, like
American Buffalo and A Life in the Theatre, he used parentheses to indicate that his characters were moving to "a more introspective regard." Maybe that's where he's headed now.
"In '
American Buffalo,' when a guy says, 'There is no law,' we understand the sentiment to be a sociopath's rage.
It is these values Zinoman mentions when asked why she chose
American Buffalo as her directing swan song.
Though Meriwether Lewis had recalled seeing "innumerable herds" less than a century earlier, by the late 1880s the
American buffalo was almost extinct.
When George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938) died, his New York Times obituary dubbed him the "father of American conservation." In this biography, Punke (history correspondent for Montana Quarterly) describes the scientific career of Grinnell as he became advocate for conservation in the American West, including his advocacy on behalf of the nearly extinct
American buffalo, his role in establishing Glacier National Park, his organizing on behalf of the first Audubon Society, and his founding (with Theodore Roosevelt) of the conservationist Boone and Crockett Club.
While you're buying metal bucks in bulk from the government, take a look at the 2006
American Buffalo gold proof $50 coin.
In 1975, the year David Mamet's
American Buffalo debuted at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, President Richard Nixon signed an order allowing gold, for the first time in American history, to be traded freely on the market like any other commodity.
Newmark Knight Frank Retail is marketing the former Circle in the Square Theatre, where Al Pacino starred in "
American Buffalo."
The Buffalo Guys pride themselves on helping to preserve the health and integrity of the North
American buffalo herds and the environment.
It was this skill, combined through understanding animals' anatomy (garnered by hunting) that allowed him to create imaginary pictures, such as
American buffalo charging.
The bill provides for the protection of the last wild and genetically pure
American buffalo, calling for the end of the ongoing slaughter.