Word: benching
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...eavesdropping in Central Park--you hear people saying vague things about their ordinary lives because they don't have anything to do but talk. You listen to a couple of policemen boast; a few words erupt from Old Man Boyle, their senile ward; three crotchety sisters settle on a bench to complete their crossword puzzle; and a wanton woman who might have scrubbed floors in Blooming dale's for 20 years reminisces. Except there's something off-beat about this everyday company. There's a plaintive note in all of their voices that echoes the whine of the harmonica that...
...them tend to buckle under familiar interpretations. O'Brien fills the play's most decrepit role as Old Man Boyle, who blathers sporadically about the 20 pounds of crap in his bowels, his putrid liver, leaden legs, rotting teeth, and sparse hair. Perched in his wheelchair, between the park bench and the garbage pail, he seems content to survey the progressive dissolution of others with a complicit smile that might be meant for a slyer old man, Beckett...
...word "throw." At yesterday's practive, a sweat-suited Kubacki went through the motions. But he was tossing, not throwing still solemn, as if the realization of his dream depends on forces over which he has no control. Once again Kubacki is waiting to get off the bench...
...Deep Bench...
...hurts us as far as our running game is concerned," varsity coach Tom 'Satch' Sanders said yesterday. "You need that depth on the bench to run a fast break...