Word: bump
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...pliable poultry belongs to a Broadway subgenre - which includes Encores! honorees "Du Barry Was a Lady" and "A Connecticut Yankee" - that Viertel describes as "the 'hero-hit-on-the-head-with-a-bottle' musical." The conked conqueror in "English" is a genteel Brit, Michael Bramleigh, who, after a head-bump, becomes Goto Schmidt, owner of Dresden's notorious night spot Klub "21." (Both roles are played, with an expert counterfeit of charm, by Brian d'Arcy James.) Goto and his girlfriend Gita Gobel (Emily Skinner) are forever threatened by the pompous Police Commissioner (Imus' man of a thousand voices...
...younger rowers, the regatta was a significant bump in the road for a lightweight crew that has improved each year. For the seniors, it was a disappointing finish to seven wildly successful careers in Ivy League rowing—careers that will be remembered, most of all, for capturing the 2003 national title...
...cloud of birds seems to move in obedience to one mind. In fact, Surowiecki writes, each starling is acting on its own, following four simple rules: "1) stay as close to the middle as possible; 2) stay 2 to 3 body lengths away from your neighbor; 3) do not bump into any other starling; 4) if a hawk dives at you, get out of the way." The result is safety, and a magical, organic coherence of motion--unconscious "wisdom...
...return will likely bump freshman Cindy Chu—who slid into the No. 6 slot in Martire’s absence—from the ladder altogether and freshman Preethi Mukundan and sophomore Melissa Anderson to Nos. 5 and 6, respectively...
...acting? Let's ask KEVIN SPACEY, the Oscar winner who told London police he had been "mugged" in a park while walking his dog at 4:30 a.m. Spacey later confessed that the culprit was a con man who had tricked him into handing over his cell phone. The bump on his head? Self-inflicted, as the thespian gave chase, tripped over his dog and fell. Spacey later jokingly implied that David Beckham had bribed him to do something stupid enough to move the soccer star off the front pages of the British tabs. O.K., now that we believe...