the locker room before the exhibition: Schacht braced up like Frankenstein
Loach et al. had outfitted Ted Schacht with a complex knee-brace with jointed aluminum struts down both sides and a coin-sized hole in the elastic over the kneecap for dermal ventilation, and Schacht was lumbering around between the stalls and the locker with his arms straight out and his weight on his heels pretending to walk like Frankenstein.
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The injured body reinforced with hardware. Schacht's ruined knee gets "a complex knee-brace with jointed aluminum struts down both sides," the athletic body literally rebuilt as a braced machine before it's allowed on court — and Schacht clowns the truth of it, lumbering "like Frankenstein," a thing assembled from struts and elastic and stitched-together parts. The regimen's cost worn as exo-equipment, played for a laugh over the real fact of it.