Word: bump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK COMEDY is a slam-bang comedy-literally. The humor of Peter Shaffer's one-acter springs more from body English than feats of wit. It is based on a single conceit - watching agile actors in a blaze of lights behave and misbehave, bump and reel, as if in total darkness...
...ritual of deep knee bends with 60-lb. sacks of sand on their shoulders, forced them to climb endless flights of stairs, descend innumerable mountains to strengthen thigh muscles. On the slopes, he was the original martinet: barking orders to assistants through a walkie-talkie, charting every speed-slowing bump or hollow, taking the temperature of the snow with a rectal thermometer to be certain that precisely the right amount of wax was on the skis...
...shake. And he likes to observe the teen-bopper subculture in action. At night, Hazen's absorbs the Bartley crowd. During the weekdays, it becomes a Cambridge streetcorner moved indoors, a refuge for the lustful, sallow, acne-splattered teen set. Precocous little girls with rampaging breasts bump and grind to the Seeds and the Stones. Cheeseburger boys in thick maroon coats and plaid pants leer through clouds of smoke. Everyone is doing all right...
...shock absorbers while the bob dances freely beneath them. Since there are four points of contact with the snow, spills happen much less frequently than in skiing, and enthusiasts insist that it is virtually impossible to break a leg. Even when elated beginners go too fast and hit a bump, the worst that usually happens is a harmless wipe-out in soft snow...
...chance of keeping Brown from copping its third straight titles after it tied powerful Army 2-2 the week before. But a goal by Bruin flash Vic de Jong gave his team a 4-2 lead which held up; and now Yale can only hope that someone else will bump off the Brownies...