Word: walk-on
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...Micomonaco, a biology concentrator who hails from Sault Saint Marie, Ontario, was a walk-on last year after having played hockey his freshman year. He was named co-captain and most improved player after the 1999 campaign...
Updike's enterprise is not as fanciful as it might at first seem. He has consulted the same sources Shakespeare apparently used for his play but shapes this material to different purposes. Here the moody prince makes only a walk-on appearance. Updike's spotlight falls instead on Hamlet's mother Queen Gertrude and her adulterous affair with Claudius, her husband's younger brother. The topic of illicit sex will sound familiar to Updike's readers, but the archaic Scandinavian setting and the regal gravitas of the characters involved make this old story fresh and moving...
Items up for bid include a non-speaking, walk-on role in the season finale of the hit NBC drama "The West Wing," lunch with NBC anchor Tom Brokaw and dinner for two with the candidates before this fall's presidential debate at the John F. Kennedy Library...
...auction's biggest coups this year is the walk-on role on "The West Wing," which Alumni and Development Programs Director Curtis Nelson was able to procure from her future brother-in-law, Paul S. Redford, who is an executive story editor for the television program...
...down to two kids and in the end they chose the other guy," Prasse-Freeman said. "After that, there was some discussion about playing at Stanford as a walk-on, but you can't beat Harvard in terms of the academics, and school's really important to me. Between riding the bench at Stanford and getting a chance to play here, it really wasn't much of a decision...