Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Berlins were absorbed in competing culture festivals last week - alien celebrations of the arts, one on each side of the Wall. West Berlin had invited three symphony orchestras to help spotlight the inauguration of its new, $4,000,000 Philharmonic Hall, and East Berlin had theatrical troupes from Moscow and Prague in town to play alongside its own Berliner Ensemble...
...result is a stunning and memorable show. There are no distractions to hide mediocrity. The Russians put an individual out there on the dirt floor of the ring, spotlight him, and, presumably, he either excels, or next January-after the circus completes a tour of Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis-he will be selling astrakhans in the GUM store...
Rockefeller went to the conference armed with a resolution calling for the creation of a special committee of Governors to cooperate with the President in working out "a nationwide program toward achieving equal rights and opportunities." Mindful that the proposal would spotlight their deep division on the issue, Democrats maneuvered to keep the resolution from ever coming to a vote. In that, the Democrats succeeded, but Rocky kept the fight going for several rounds, and in each round he scored political points...
...Henry is James Ray, who played the same person at a younger age last summer in I Henry IV. Ray was better as Prince Hal, but I have seen many a worse Henry V. He looks right for Henry, but he does not (despite the use of a following spotlight) exhibit the dazzling aureole the part needs. His diction is clear and pleasant, but his voice is not always equal to the task given. Before the siege of Harfleur, his "Once more unto the breach" harangue does not ring as it ought; it is a clarinet instead of a clarion...
...tried out some Weill on a Jewish audience, Brecht's German lyrics caused a near riot. Many in the audience stormed out, and one man began to scream at her, "Stop singing German!" Schlamme left the stage, soothed herself with a deep breath, then returned to the spotlight to freeze her remaining listeners with one final line. "I haven't been so frightened," she said, "since the Hitler Youth chased me down the street in Vienna...