Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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William Ruckelshaus, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, laments that the nation seems caught up in a quest for the "chemical of the month." He was referring to once obscure substances, such as dioxin and PCB, that suddenly get catapulted into the public spotlight. Enter October's celebrity poison...
Without preamble, the three-piece band cuts loose. In the spotlight, the lanky singer flails furious rhythms on his guitar, every now and then breaking a string. In a pivoting stance, his hips swing sensuously from side to side and his entire body takes on a frantic quiver, as if he had swallowed a jackhammer. Full-cut hair tousles over his forehead, and sideburns frame his petulant, full-lipped face. His style is partly hillbilly, partly socking rock 'n' roll. His loud baritone goes raw and whining in the high notes, but down low it is rich...
...year of its birth, TIME featured the first scientist on its cover: Frederick G. Banting, the Canadian physician who, with Charles H. Best, extracted the hormone insulin from the pancreas and finally provided a successful treatment of diabetes mellitus, until then almost always a killer. Two months later the spotlight focused on the naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews, whose hunt for dinosaur and other ancient fossil remains in the Gobi Desert had fascinated the nation. In its second year, long before the id and the superego had become the chatter of the cocktail hour, TIME devoted a cover story...
...furor in Newport over the dilapidation of Mrs. James Jay Coogan's empty mansion on aristocratic Catherine Street turned the spotlight on one of the world's wealthiest recluses: for 25 years Mrs. Coogan, now well into her 80s, has seldom left her Manhattan hotel suite in the daytime, but each night at 9 o'clock she goes down in the freight elevator heavily veiled, drives to her cubbyhole office in a loft building, puts in five hours administering her real-estate fortune (which includes Coogan's Bluff, the Polo Grounds where the Giants play...
...with Army looking to score on its third straight possession, Dixon grabbed the spotlight. Healy had left with a shoulder injury near the end of the third quarter: when his replacement. Bill Turner, tried to hit tight end Mark Triplett near the sideline for a short gainer, Dixon just stepped in the way for the ninth-longest interception return in Crimson history...