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Word: cameo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost expects the David Kennedy/Marjorie Garber/ Barbara Johnson crowd to make cameo appearances at the various social gatherings around which much of the narrative is centered, responding authoritatively to questions such as whether "the dissemination of revolutionary ideas through popular underground art such as pornography is an interesting antecedent to the samizdat publications of (Czechoslovakia)" or engaging in discussions of the validity of meta-Heideggerian semaphorism...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Rameau's Pastiche | 5/28/1993 | See Source »

Gondoliers has a strong supporting cast as well, unusual for the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Laura White's Duchess and Marcia Groome's Inez give fine cameo performances and the chorus, although plagued by one member so annoying that I spent most of the show wishing a flat would drop on her, has a fine vocal quality...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: Rough Sailing for Gondoliers | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

...folks, let me ask you: What becomes a legend most? That's right. Disappearing. You remember, after Ghostbusters and The Razor's Edge, Bill vamoosed to Paris with his family. Took courses at the Sorbonne -- that's French for Harvard and Yale put together. He did a great cameo in Little Shop of Horrors, but otherwise, for four years Bill was J.D. Showbiz Salinger. And we're sorry to say that Bill couldn't be here tonight. Maybe he thought this was a roast and not a toast. He can be a suspicious guy. As Harold told me, "Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Murray in The Driver's Seat | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

...react to this movie depends largely on how much you already know about the featured bands and various other groups whose members make cameo appearances. Most of the jokes are what are popularly referred to as "in jokes." However, if you have any sympathies with the punk rock philosophy, or even if you just sort of dig Sonic Youth, "1991: The Year Punk Broke" is safe, clean fun and an excellent way to boost your "alternative" credentials...

Author: By John Donahue, | Title: Before Punk Got Big | 2/25/1993 | See Source »

...made up of hundreds of up and down quarks.) Exactly how much top quarks weigh is a question scientists are anxious to answer, but first they must find some to measure -- a task considerably complicated by the fact that in nature these massive but ethereal entities made only a cameo appearance, just after the Big Bang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Wanted Particle | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

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