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The term "black comedy" has become so elastic in the last few years that it now extends to entertainments as various as Life Is Beautiful , in which Chaplinesque sentimentality is juxtaposed with concentration-camp horror, and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels , in which flyspeck louts machine-gun other flyspeck louts with farcical haplessness.
This seems too specific to American English [AE] speakers who associate the designation with the circus and other entertainments.
Among the entertainments they concocted to cheer up the long cold evenings was a play, Le Théâtre de Neptune.
Frost calls this custom swinging birches , and the one who practises it, a swinger of birches . Though the custom was not universal, back in the days when youngsters still invented their own entertainments, enough of them swung the limber birches for it to be a common pastime.
In the years since, Stoppard has readily indulged himself with hack work ( The Russia House ), middlebrow entertainments ( Empire of the Sun ), and pre- Shakespeare in Love house calls as a script doctor ( Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ). Andrew Lloyd Webber and Steven Spielberg recently commissioned a Cats screenplay from Stoppard.