Word: bump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lulu: Ouch! Say, big boy, why did you let me bump you? You've messed...
William Jacobson's direction shows that he knows his business. Ditto for John Dudley's musical direction and Christina Wilhelm's choreography. But something--perhaps opening night jitters--seemed to throw every-one off a bit. The girls grind grandly but they never quite bump with the orchestra's beat; a group of swaying subway riders slowly splits into two groups swaying in opposite directions--and not even a BMT car can produce that effect...
...control it," he would tell his brother Bailey, who later became good enough himself to win a spot on the Harlem Globetrotters. "I've got to control the dribble." Recalls his mother: "You couldn't sleep at night with that basketball going all the time. Bump! Bump! Bump...
Each of the N.B.A.'s stars faces special defensive techniques. Says Cincinnati's Wayne Embry of playing against Boston's Russell: "Get Bill off the boards. I try to push him out as far as he'll go. I try to bump him out with my thighs and forearms. You can't push Wilt out. He's too strong." Says Russell on defending against Chamberlain: "Make him take that fall-away shot of his-it takes him away from the backboard." Says Twyman about Baylor, one of the great stars in the history...
...body. When he was nine or ten, I used to see him running all over the countryside at 6 o'clock on summer mornings. In the winter, before every competition, Guy always had to go early to study the slope. He even took notes, meticulously marking each bump and danger spot...