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noun
A nomadic excursion into the bush, especially one taken by young teenage boys in certain ancient-custom honoring tribes.
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As Lee Siegel notes in an introduction to "Walkabout," the novel on which the movie was based, "post-Woodstock, post-Manson, Roeg's startling film is very much of its disillusioned moment, the early seventies, when the naïve enthusiasms of love-ins and flower children have given way to cynicism and despair".
Despite my propensity for slumming, I'd probably never go to Walkabout if it weren't for one thing: the Joker Draw.
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Nic had gone off to make Walkabout, so Donald had to go out there to work on a recut, which introduced the Jagger character earlier, while also toning down the violence and the insinuation of homosexuality, even though it was never graphic.
In the nearest he got all day to a walkabout, he waved to the 200-strong crowd and posed for photographs with a family of US tourists.
Mr Cameron was also the first foreign leader to go walkabout in Tahrir Square last month.
We've all become acutely aware of the tendency of personal data to go walkabout.
"He used to go walkabout and chain his dog underneath the trailer".
The letter had been posted in March 1950 and had been lost in the mail for 56 years.It is unusual for letters to go walkabout for that long, of course, but unexplained delays of a day or two are common.
Tourism Australia is making much of the new Baz Luhrmann movie, Australia, with its latest ads asking people to "go walkabout" and reconnect with their inner, lost selves by visiting Australia.
Others are cinematographers by trade, and their origins show; look at the films of Nicolas Roeg, who worked for Lean as a second-unit cameraman on "Lawrence" and then rose to make "Walkabout" (1971) and "Don't Look Now" (1973), films whose hunger for the hypnotic image is nigh insatiable.
Next to critical illness, one of the most worrying moments in a pet owner's life is when their small friend decides to go walkabout - alone.
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