Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standby dress that has hung there in the back of the closet for years, always ready to be pulled out and made a fad of. This year, finally, the longtime understudy has turned star: the shift dress, normally relegated to the last-resort department, has grabbed the fashion spotlight to become a full-fledged Trend...
After production statistics, about the most carefully concealed figures in Red China belong to the bosses' wives. Premier Chou En-lai's plump partner is often in the spotlight because she herself is a veteran Communist, but hardly anyone ever sees the wives of Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his second in command. Liu Shao...
...last two nationally ranked college teams, Ohio State and Michigan State, say hello to the 1962 football season today, but several unranked clubs are slated to hog most of the spotlight on this second big Saturday of the young campaign...
...film is as faithful as a slave to Meredith Willson's Broadway hit musical. Indeed, at one point a theater spotlight is used to light up the hero and his girl, with the rest of the screen in darkness. The hero is Professor Harold Hill (Robert Preston), a 1912 conman in the corn-belt town of River City, Iowa. Preston's tactic is to whip up enthusiasm in small towns for starting a brass band, sucker parents into buying the instruments and uniforms, and then skip out without teaching the young Sousaphiles a note. Preston is a musical...
Ashurst stayed on in Washington-"It was a duty and a doom for me to stay away from Arizona." For two years, he held a job as a member of the Board of Immigration Appeals in the Justice Department. Then he retired altogether, emerging only occasionally into the spotlight. He appeared on TV's $64,000 Question, missed a question, won a consolation prize of a Cadillac, which he promptly sold. Hollywood gave him a bit part in Advise and Consent as "Senator McCafferty," who dozes through most of the picture except for intermittent mouthing of flowery rhetoric. When...