They prevail because strong leadership binds them, convincing them to set aside the inevitable differences in priorities between superstars making $ 5 million annually and up and spear carriers working for the $ 109, 000 minimum.
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That night, when the company is performing Shakespeare's " Hamlet ", with Tura in the title role, Bronski commiserates with his friend and colleague, Greenberg ( Felix Bressart ), about being limited to being spear carriers.
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He was supporting himself as a sewing-machine salesman when he got a part as a spear carrier in Leslie Howard's critically acclaimed production of " Hamlet " on Broadway and was promoted to the part of Rosencrantz.
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That sober warning recurs to me often, most recently this week on the occasion of the convening of the 50th annual conclave of the International Press Institute in Boston, where 500 publishers, poobahs, editors, and assorted spear carriers.
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Among their spear carriers were " statesmen, diplomats, bankers, soldiers, professors, economists and lawyers, " not least among them Lawrence of Arabia " wrapped in mystery and Arab robes " and a young Asian named Ho Chi Minh.
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He is the primary narrator of the stories and assists Nuala Anne in solving mysteries ( his photographic memory helps with historic and other relevant details ), though he describes his involvement as being merely her " spear carrier ."
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The lot of a supernumerary _ one of those people on a crowded stage who doesn't sing, or isn't supposed to; " super " for short, " spear carrier " in cruder circles _ can be as adventurous as a Boito libretto.
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For $ 35, you get Superloud Piezo to double-zing the yegg, to really box his ears as if he were some mere member of the listening public, one of the spear carriers in the great American opera of shrieking for property protection.
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The Ancient Greek term for spear carrier ( " ????????? ", " doruph�ros ", from " ???? ", spear, and " ???? ", to carry ) originally meant a soldier armed with a spear acting as a bodyguard or ceremonial guard to noblemen.
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(P ) op quiz : Useful vocabulary words : Aria ( air ); tenor ( leading man ); heldentenor ( tenor with a gigantic, heroic voice, suitable for Wagner ); supernumerary ( extra, spear carrier ); " Bis ! " ( " Encore!
