Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heights were meant to be insular. Harlem flounders at the bottom of the cliffs in Morning-side Park while the real patrons of the city are quietly pushed out of the neighborhood as undesirables. On the Heights Columbia wanted room for "academic neutrality." Military solicitors hawked on campus under open recruitment. Ties with the Institute for Defense Analysis were muted, and Columbia continued to expand into the neighborhood, smiling business-will-be-business to the tenants forced to leave. It all blew apart last April...
...HUGE mirror covered one wall of the room. A few chairs were scattered around. Two tables were cluttered with empty wine bottles plastic fruit, masks, and a rubber chicken. Several large black rubber mats lay on the floor -- where the 12 bodies were stretched...
...frail-looking wooden chair, a boy sat watching them in silence. He wore blue jeans, a blue shirt, a brown vest, and glasses. His shaggy brown hair curled around his ears. The door to the room squeaked open just wide enough for the head of a girl to stick in. From beyond the door came some giggles, and then the distinct Cambridge twang of a high school student floated into the room, "Look, they're playing dead...
...someone." What happened was very eerie to watch; for the actors began to grunt at each other, and then, as though high on the action around them to physically contact each other, bumping, then shoving, and in one case, actually fighting. Suddenly, big waves of energy were flooding the room where minutes before there had been none...
After about a minute of this, two of the actresses, playing a noblewoman and her beautiful servant, moved away from the rest of the people toward the corner of the room from which they come on stage to open the second act. As they moved, they talked to each other, half as their characters, half as themselves, improvising their lines. Then, as they stood arguing, Cooper said, "All right, come on. Come on." And, as the rest of the cast was silent, the two girls cut from their improvised dialogue to the lines which open the second act. This time...