Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handling of the banquet scene is superb. Shakespeare intended that someone impersonating a ghost should actually appear here twice; and it was always done this way from his day until Kemble's production of 1794. Nonetheless, it is wrong. And director Houseman was right to substitute a weak red spotlight instead (which has the added virtue of avoiding a decision as to whether one of the two appearances is the ghost of Duncan rather than of Banquo). The apparitions are hallucinatory and visible only to Macbeth. It makes no more sense to bring in a ghost visible...
Besides the shortage of delegates and electoral votes, small-staters suffer from other handicaps that do not afflict the Governors of New York, California and Michigan. With their modest personnel budgets, they cannot readily afford the large staffs necessary to put a politician in the spotlight and keep him there. There are fewer big moneymen in the back yard willing to finance political spadework, fewer political professionals available to give counsel and serve as delegate hunters...
...SPOTLIGHT (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Abbe Lane and Noel Harrison are the guest hosts in the first of this summer variety series from London. Premi...
...further task that lies ahead is picking a successor to Blough, who will retire when he reaches 65 in January 1969. The choice is especially important since U.S. Steel's chairman doubles informally as the industry's chief spokesman, a role that came under a harsh spotlight during Blough's 1962 confrontation with President Kennedy. The man generally figured to have the inside track for the top job is Executive Vice President R. Heath Larry, 53, a former company labor negotiator who now serves as Blough's right-hand man. Ed Gott's new responsibilities...
...beard glowing in the spotlight, the white-haired director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for the Physiology of Behavior punctuated his speech with comments on nest-building jackdaws, the creeping amoeba, and the business world...