Word: walk-on
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...Women’s lightweight rowing has never recruited that many people before, maybe two to four recruits per boat,” varsity captain Jennifer Chung, a walk-on herself, said. “[The varsity eight] is probably 40/60 recruited to walk...
...He’s come from being a walk-on whose job was to catch the bullpens and keep your mouth shut,” Walsh says of Roth, “and has turned out to be a kid who’s still a quiet kid, but right now his bat’s doing the talking...
DIED. Bobby Rosengarden, 82, session drummer for artists from Duke Ellington to Harry Belafonte who became better known in the late 1960s as the musical smart aleck and bandleader on The Dick Cavett Show; in Sarasota, Fla. Rosengarden perfected the art of the witty, and sometimes risqu, "walk-on" song to accompany guests. Of Rosengarden's choice of tunes--Hello Dolly for Salvador Dal, There'll Be Some Changes Made for transsexual Jan Morris--Cavett later said, "Luckily, the censor was dumber about music than...
...such man does pipe up: a half-blind tea seller named Gopal Pandey. Like Zelig in a dhoti, he has a walk-on part in every major upheaval of the past two decades. Eventually, Kartar Singh's party tries to capitalize on Gopal's iconic ordinariness by running him for Parliament. "Symbols," a jealous opponent observes, "are all some people have to eat and drink...
...Kibbe ’82 offered testimonies in remembrance of Symonds’ later life and career. “He was a theater guy—a theater god,” said Kibbe. Alan got behind anyone who needed him.” Symonds had some walk-on parts in the occasional Gilbert and Sullivan show, Kibbe added, “but he was the star in a really impressive way.” Reading a letter addressed to Symonds, Kibbe expressed a widely held sentiment, that despite his many contributions as an adviser, it is Symonds?...