Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Simply by using a joint session of Congress to turn the spotlight once again on El Salvador, Reagan may have elevated a nagging foreign policy problem into a prominent campaign issue for 1984. Says one of his top political advisers: "It's waving a red flag. It's raising the urgency. It reminds me of Lyndon Johnson's escalating the Viet...
...perhaps a fitting ending yesterday all five seniors sharing the spotlight in their final Ivy League game as members of the Harvard women's lacrosse squad...
...less than 24 hours after the Crimson had banded Yale its seventh loss in 11 games on the year, the squad returned to Soldiers Field to topple a week Vermont squad. With DenHartog on the sidelines, the spotlight turned to Finn, who notched five goals and four assists to lead Harvard. Both White and Hart added their second straight hat tricks to provide the Crimson's other major scoring punches...
...wrong staff' controversy is Glenn's campaign manager, William White, a smalltown lawyer with a notable lack of political savvy, who has been Glenn's closest aide for nine years. Admits White: "Kennedy's withdrawal did leave us temporarily exposed, and during that time the spotlight on us was a little brighter than we wanted. We weren't quite as organized as we hoped." Lately, however, the campaign has gathered strength. By April, $1.2 million had been raised. Sixty full-time staffers are in place, and veteran Media Adviser David Sawyer has been hired...
...dead Caesar--not just the famous "Friends, Romans, Countrymen," but the Machiavellian masterpieces that follow--provide a classic example of words that don't need stagecraft to make them work. True, the otherwise subtle lighting design turns a bit blatant for the great funeral speech, dropping to a single spotlight as soon as Antony begins to speak, spectators' yells coming out of the near-pitch dark. Even that tactic, though, carries a certain ingenuous charm; why shouldn't Woronicz and director Cameron-Webb admit they're enjoying playing this scene? Anyone who studied the play in high school and whispered...