Word: cue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under her breath, Patty promptly began making her "noises," the grunts of the speechless, to cover Anne's indiscretion. When Anne finally whispered, "I'm going to shove you out the window," Patty made the drop and managed to make her way to her stage mother on cue...
...thoroughly irritating. A prosaic love triangle is established on a remote banana plantation-a planter (the book's nameless narrator), his wife and a neighboring plantation owner. If this were one of Paul Bowles's African novels of sin and sun, the weather would cloud up on cue, providing a timpani accompaniment to the heroine's rages. Robbe-Grillet cheerfully invents a greater fault. Obsessed by the reality of objects, he describes them endlessly, and then repeats his descriptions-a column that casts a shadow, a squashed centipede, the location of a window, of a garden...
Waiting in the wings for his entrance cue during a Metropolitan Opera performance of The Marriage oj Figaro last week, Tenor Charles Kullman (Don Basilic) suddenly realized that he was missing something: his voice. His vocal cords evidently affected by a lingering cold, Kullman rushed to the dressing room and started desperately croaking at Tenor Gabor Carelli, who was not scheduled to go on (in the role of Don Curzio) until the third act. Carelli looked up amiably from his newspaper. "Quit your kidding, Charlie," he said. When Kullman finally got his message across. Carelli hastily switched costumes and rushed...
...foes of rapid integration won a round in Arkansas last week. Taking its cue from a U.S. Supreme Court decision, which upheld the constitutionality of Alabama's pupil-placement law last winter, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis ruled that a similar law in Arkansas is legal. Under the law, Arkansas school boards have full authority to assign students on the basis of qualifications not essentially concerned with race...
...football season could hardly have started more sweetly. Amid predictions of a winning season, the varsity took its cue and convincingly downed the University of Massachusetts, 36 to 22, at Soldiers Field Saturday...