Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Welles couldn't have graciously ceded the spotlight to deHory, instead of forcing himself, and his own legerdemain, to center stage. He keeps butting--reciting from Kipling, lumbering through fog in Ireland, gluttoning himself with oysters and steaks. Somehow this went over big in Europe, where F for Fake has already played. Some superstars have only to throw a little self-adulation into their work--their childhood memories, their hors-d'oeuvres, their kitchen sinks--and eager-tongued adulators lap it up. Welles and Barbara Walters...
Then he began to take himself seriously. And after being out of the spotlight for a few years, Tom Wolfe is back, all over the pages of Harper's and New York Magazine last summer, and now with a new collection of essays called Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine...
...South African government will be loathe to bring the spotlight of unfavorable publicity on the country when I return," he said...
...Sammy Davis Jr. are getting together for a little New Year's Eve celebration, and other couples are invited to join them, if they have $200 to $500 to spare. Davis, 50, who was best man at her 1974 wedding to Jack Haley Jr., will share the spotlight with Liza, 30, singing, dancing and clowning in a 1½-hour cabaret act at the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla. Bubbles Liza: "I've been dreaming about this ever since Sammy jumped onto the stage in the middle of my act at Harrah's in Tahoe...
More than three years after his national spotlight faded, Samuel Dash, the chief counsel for the Watergate Committee, has come out with his version of the story called, appropriately, Chief Counsel. Although subtitled "Inside the Ervin Committee--The Untold Story of Watergate," Chief Counsel actually reveals precious little new information about the break-in, the cover-up, the associated dirty tricks, or anything substantive about the process of the Senate committee's investigation. What the book does provide is a large chunk of new Watergate trivia; gossip--and often nothing more--about individual senators on the committee and Dash...