Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

Her mother would be fast asleep curled up against that wonderful, big, safe, solid shoulder next to her on the front seat.

Her observations about the sharing of garden plots amongst the Arapesh, the egalitarian emphasis in child rearing, and her documentation of predominantly peaceful relations among relatives are very different from the " big man " displays of dominance that were documented in more stratified New Guinea cultures — e. g., by Andrew Strathern.

Her father also told Baleka that Shaka spoke as though " his tongue were too big for his mouth.

Her one scene role as pregnant checkout girl Nancy in 1991's City Slickers earned her " more attention than all previous roles combined ," and taught her that " that it's far better to have small parts in big movies that everyone sees.

Her maternal grandparents were Millicent Green, a dancer with the George White's Scandals, a series of 1920s musical revues similar to the Ziegfeld Follies, and Johnny McAfee, a multireedist and vocalist of the big band era ; her grandparents met while touring with Johnny Hamp and his orchestra.

Her nickname was " la tragédienne de la chanson ", and amongst her big hits were " Les goélands ", " Johnny Palmer ", " C ' est mon gigolo " and " Tu ne sais pas aimer "-- the latter song became a theme for French sufferers of AIDS.

Her mythic connections to Dionysus are minimal and late, but both cults focused on the foreigner-deity's arrival in a chariot, drawn by exotic big cats – Dionysus by tigers, Cybele by lions.

Her first big break was a lead role in the radio comedy Take It From Here, and television followed, including appearances with Tony Hancock throughout his television career.

Her big break came in 1953 when she replaced the emigrating Joy Nichols on the hit Muir and Norden radio comedy Take It From Here, co-starring Jimmy Edwards and Dick Bentley.

Her big guns quickly silenced most of Arnold's fleet.

Her big break came in the 1985 film The Goonies, in which she played cheerleader-turned-adventurer Andrea " Andy " Carmichael.

Her biographer, Jan Dalley, believes that, " Unity found life in her big family very difficult because she came after these cleverer, prettier, more accomplished sisters.

Her last big family gathering took place at Zizers, in 1987, when her children and grandchildren joined in celebrating Empress Zita's 95th birthday.

Modern swing dance bands active in the U. S. during the 1990s and 2000s include many contemporary jazz big bands, swing revival bands with a national presence such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ( based in San Francisco ), and local / regional jazz bands that specialize in 1930s-1940s swing / Lindy dance music, such as The Swingout Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra ( Boston ), The Boilermaker Jazz Band ( Pittsburgh ), the Southside Aces ( Minneapolis ), Gordon Webster Septet ( New York ), Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five ( Los Angeles ) and The Jonathan Stout Orchestra featuring Hilary Alexander ( Los Angeles ), The Flat Cats ( Chicago ), The Gina Knight Orchestra ( Chicago and Joliet, IL ), the Solomon Douglas Swingtet and the Tom Cunningham Orchestra ( Washington, D. C .), Sonoran Swing ( Arizona ), and The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra ( Los Angeles ).

Her first assignments were stories that did not interest " the big boys.

Her big screen debut was in Hue and Cry, in 1947, followed with performances in Nicholas Nickleby, The Winslow Boy, The History of Mr Polly, Scott of the Antarctic, Mother Riley Meets the Vampire and Dickens ' The Pickwick Papers.

Her big break came in the 1961 BBC serial A for Andromeda.

Her last big hit was " September in the Rain " in 1961 ( Number 23 pop, Number 5 R & B ).

Her big break came the following year, when she received her first starring role in Public Wedding.

On the big screen she became a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), playing Tracy Bond, James Bond's only wife.

Her recordings of several Serge Gainsbourg songs also were big sellers.

Her big break came in 1970, when she was in her mid-thirties.

Her father, Donald Wade Basinger, was a big band musician and loan manager who as a U. S. Army soldier landed in Normandy on D-Day ( June 6, 1944 ).

Her line-by-line translations, complete with brackets where the ancient papyrus sources break off, are meant to capture both the original's lyricism and its present fragmentary nature.

Her drab voice quavers with a brittle strength that can command a student but break before a parent's will.

Her break came when she was discovered by Jack Nicholson in the reception room of Paramount's New York office and was cast as the female lead in his second directorial effort, the 1978 Western Goin ' South.

Her career break came with the early 1960s sitcom Marriage Lines starring opposite Richard Briers.

Her break into big-time show business came in February 1955, when she turned down $ 30 to appear on a Swainsboro radio station in order to see Red Foley and a touring promotional unit of his ABC-TV program Ozark Jubilee in Augusta.

Her catchphrases included " This won't break you ", " This is perfectly economical ", and " This won't stretch your purse ".

Her first big break in films was a small speaking role in the 1994 Woody Allen film Bullets Over Broadway.

Her big star break came in 1987, when she was cast as Marcy Rhoades ( later Marcy D ' Arcy ) on the hit Fox TV sitcom Married ... with Children.

Her character leads a coven of necromancer witches who threaten the status quo in Bon Temps, erasing most of Eric Northman's memories and leaving him almost helpless when he tries to kill her and break up their coven.

Her break came with a bit part in 1986's Pretty in Pink which led to more substantial roles in Sweet Revenge with Nancy Allen and Cocktail, with Tom Cruise and Elisabeth Shue.

Her big break came in 1975 at an amateur night at the comedy club Catch a Rising Star in New York.

Her stories often include themes where an alien or supernatural force is either trying to break into the world of the characters, or else trying to drag them into their own unnatural realms.

Her big break came in 1983 when she starred opposite Richard Chamberlain as the lead role portraying Meggie Cleary in the television mini-series The Thorn Birds, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film.

Her first big break was Seema, for which she won her first Filmfare Best Actress Award.

Her character steals Adam away from Eva, and begins dating him after he and Eva break up.

Her first significant break was being selected as an artist for the Young Concert Artists Trust in 1985.

Her next major break was a record deal with Collins Classics, with whom she made fifteen recordings.

Impressed with the script, Home asked Davies to write the second episode, and when Tony Robinson decided to take a break from producing Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, a slot opened up in the Children's BBC schedules for late 1991 and Home decided to use Dark Season to fill it, commissioning Davies to write the remaining episodes of the serial.