Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon himself apparently initiated the plea bargaining in which Agnew and the Justice Department have participated. And the chances are good that Agnew's confession of his sins will in a perverse way help the man who thrust Agnew into the national spotlight in July...
Just as Time escorted activism off the national stage, so had it several years earlier ushered it into the spotlight--this time, too, with Harvard setting the pace. The Harvard strike of 1969 was enshrined on the front cover of Time as one of those events that had Made It. Never mind that students at other universities had rebelled while Harvard was still simmering quietly--the movement only counted when it arrived in Cambridge...
...only championship in crew that the Harvard community could muster. Radciffe crew outsone, outrowed, outpromoted the rest of the women's competition in the country, encroaching not only onto the Harvard crews' male dominance of the audience in Cambridge, but usurping with an irrepressible and undeniable drive the spotlight and front stage of the entire sport. Radcilffe crew, taking sprints and national championships, with a contingent comprised of freshmen and sophomores, boasting only one rower with previous compeittive experience, stamping the New England east coast crew scene with an idelible and indomitable "R," growing and excelling simultaneously, compressing the years...
...spotlight shifted-at least for a moment. Another skyjacking occurred within one day after...
...properties of a ring of invisibility or seven-league boots. They are displayed almost theatrically, lit from top and bottom, hanging on clear strings, supported by glass shelves or plastic stands, and like the stone totems or magic tokens at Dahlem, picked out of a surrounding darkness by spotlight. There, carefully designed panels and charts locate the object on grids of time and space, and, like the advertising in Europa Center, give the argument of the drama enacted in the crystalline stage beneath: the object dissolves into the play of its powers and properties. People could be so fascinated with...