Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maggie, whose theme song is Never on Sunday, is keeper of the mike, passing it around, encouraging the people sitting beyond the spotlight. "Sing! Sing! You can do it!" Maggie is a head bank teller and has a daughter entering medical school, but she still says, "If Margaret wasn't here, I'd never come in. If you are raised in the South, you don't walk into a bar alone-you just wouldn't be a lady in my mother's opinion." Margaret's bar is not a pickup place...
Since then, Yves has been the looming figure perpetually getting in the way of Karl's owned and operated spotlight. Although he insists that Saint Laurent is "the high-fashion designer I prefer to all the other ones," Lagerfeld created a furor last spring with an interview in the Paris-based monthly Actuel in which he had some saucy things to say about his fellow designer. Certainly the reflections (which Lagerfeld claims were not intended for publication) were not out of character for a man who says, "I respect nothing, no one, including myself. Respect is not a very...
After years of quiet experience a group of Black faculty and administrators suddenly became aggressive last year, focusing a harsh spotlight on Harvard's minority hiring record. And while the activists have taken care to stress the cooperative facets of their push for affirmative action, the stridency of their statement this year has betrayed a certain impatience with some of their official colleagues...
...freshman is goalkeeper Kristin Abley and she's been thrust right into the spotlight, thanks to the graduation of a four-year starter and the absence of any viable alternative...
...continues this Manichaean probe. More important, it gives Martin his best movie chance yet to spotlight his bravura brand of physical comedy. Watch Roger/Edwina attempt to walk down the street, or go to the bathroom, or make love; each move is a sublime display of schizophrenic coordination. Watch right-side Edwina take control in a courtroom, as left-side Roger falls asleep and the ever-so-feminine Edwina moves "their" body in a grotesquely macho strut. The actor's challenge is impossibly complicated−Steve Martin playing Lily Tomlin playing Roger Cobb−and beautifully realized. The rest...