Word: walk-on
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...walk-on took only four minutes, but its Orwellian impact unsettled even hard-boiled Communist newsmen. Through a curtained doorway in Hanoi marched a husky American prisoner of war clad in purple and cream striped pajamas. He looked healthy enough, except for his eyes; as the strobe lights winked, they remained as fixed and flat as blazer buttons. Then, at a word from his captors, the American bowed deeply from the waist like a Manchurian candi date, repeating the abject gesture in all directions about a dozen times. At an other command, he turned on his sandaled heel and marched...
Less Blood, Much Bumf. "Awfully chic to be killed," remarks one of them, Charles Stringham. In the first novel, Stringham was an elegant, clever schoolboy at Eton. Now, after walk-on parts in later books as a sophisticated, droll, despairing alcoholic, he appears as a wry, dry, still witty private working as a waiter in an officers' mess at a divisional headquarters in Northern Ireland. Here, as in other scenes, the denizens of Powell's world-upper-class intelligentsia with outposts in the City, the aristocracy and in the upper bohemia of the theater, journalism, painting and music...
...been shot for Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, Look and Esquire. And that is undoubtedly just the beginning. Her first major U.S. film, Grand Prix, premièred last week in Manhattan. Her role as a race-circuit follower consists of little more than ten walk-on scenes, but she walks off with every one of them...
...cavorts in a high, aristocratic drawl. She is so consistently funny that the audience begins to laugh before she has done anything, and they applaud deliriously at the end of the first scene. But she is one stage too much of the time to act like a five-minute walk-on. Never is she completely brought into the play or even into her own role...
...tirade against women, bitter tirade against men . . ." "Great theater, great truth . . ." "Best play on Broadway." So critics first hailed Clare Boothe Luce's The Women, a play that made the reputation of every actress who played in it, from Ilka Chase to Marjorie Main, who had only a walk-on part, and, in the movie version, Rosalind Russell ("It changed my life completely"). Now 30 years and $50 million in box-office receipts later, The Women is one of the few Broadway hits to become a staple in repertory around the world...