Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night, understudies step into the spotlight...
...Line, the long-running musical dramatization of a Broadway audition, is just such a masterpiece. As each of the aspirants rise to audition, exposing their secret dreams and their desperation, their message becomes most intense: before long, we too are backstage, yearning for even the briefest chance in the spotlight...
...hint of truth. As assistant to President Reagan for public liaison and the highest-ranking woman in the White House, Elizabeth ("Liddy") Dole has been a silent team player, wielding little influence and rarely speaking out on women's issues. Now, however, she has moved into the spotlight as President Reagan's nominee to be the new Secretary of Transportation, succeeding the departing Drew Lewis. Her nomination was greeted enthusiastically on Capitol Hill, especially by the senior Senator from Kansas. Deadpanned Bob Dole: "An excellent choice...
...everything from Chinese ceramics to Government bonds last year provided a classic case study of what happens to investment values when interest rates and inflation begin to slide. Collectibles, which once glittered in the glare of rising prices, assumed a certain dowdiness, while the stock market won the spotlight as it pierced all previous tops. But the real stars were bonds...
DIED. Leonid Kogan, 58, slight "aristocrat of the violin," cherished by worldwide audiences for his poker-face pyrotechnics and the silken refinement of his playing; of causes and in a location not announced by Soviet officials. A prodigy who burst into the international spotlight at age 27 by winning the 1951 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, Kogan's flawless but aloof technique could on occasion produce bloodless interpretations. A Jew who denied that Moscow was guilty of anti-Semitic discrimination, he publicly criticized dissidents like Andrei Sakharov...