Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rafts heard the engines of a bomber-a B-iy from Hickam Field, Hawaii. They fired flares, saw marker flares dropped in reply. The B-17 turned away and their hopes fell. During the night, one of the men died. As the sun grew hot again, the sky was empty and silent. Pilot Calhoun, a commander still, allowed each man one sip of water in the first 24 hours. It only seemed to make their thirst keener...
...Beirut, neon signs glared garishly before such nightspots as Maxim's, Harry's Bar and the tinseled Kit Kat Club, where a burnished blonde from Budapest chanted defiantly: "Bingle, bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle, I refuse to go." In the black sky overhead, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse and Rigel blazed as brightly as they had centuries before when Arab herdsmen first gave them their names...
...humor. And yet there are some dreadful little moments, when the actors suddenly become deadpan, straining to get a dull point across. But these scenes are few, and fairly short. When they intrude, just think back a piece and remember D'Artagnan as he points his poinard to the sky and shouts "All for one!" and his comrades raise their rapiers and reply...
Time was, when people heard an explosion, they just knew it was something big. The old gas tank out in Everett couldn't last forever, and the fireworks factory in Waltham, well, it was only common sense to expect that to blow sky high, and there were those manhole covers in South Boston, always popping off and scaring a lot of honest people. Yes-sir, those were the days when a bang meant trouble...
Light Up the Sky is more harsh than funny. It has very little wit-its long suit is billingsgate; and its most valuable asset is the malice displayed by everybody (and not least by the author*). At the end Mr. Hart has all his characters behaving beautifully again, and even implies that show folk are all just high strung screwballs anyway. It is a little as if, having blurted all the unpleasant truths he could think of, Mr. Hart blandly winds up with: "It was all just a joke; I didn't really mean a word...