Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think I'm fighting?" says Ali, looking up from a dressing-room cot after working out in the Bahamas for his own comeback this week against Trevor Berbick. (If it comes off, that is; even Ali has trouble believing it.) For the spotlight, comes the reply. He is fighting again because he needs to be a star, needs to shine...
...just wanted that, wouldn't I take the 125 college lectures offered me? Wouldn't I just go to Times Square and walk a block and stop traffic? Ain't worried about the spotlight. Ain't worried about money. Ain't worried about all the heavyweights today who can't fight. Ain't worried about nothin' but being immortal...
...principal problem that Renault faces in concluding her trilogy is that she must do so without her hero. In Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, Alexander the Not Yet Great and Alexander the Great held the spotlight and spurred the action. In Funeral Games it is his absence that motivates events. Yet the novelist-historian has done a fine job in focusing nearly half a century of chaos. Her prose, as usual, has an Attic clarity; her research is sound and her imagined scenes cenotaphs. Lacking the actual remains, they convey the unparalleled aura of Alexander and his time...
...many Americans, the real issue--achieving significant progress toward the ultimate goal of multilateral disarmament--may be rost in this flurry of rhetoric and throw-weight rosters. They will watch Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev shift the spotlight to the ever-contradictory statistics and the perceptions of false security they create. The unwillingness of government leaders and strategic scholars to distance themselves from minutiae and set aside their vaunted political symbolism, even in this most dangerous of all confrontations, demonstrates an estrangement from the real issues. Citizens here must follow the lead of European activists and voice an overwhelming demand...
Marino came into the game the nation's most highly touted quarterback, but on this day he wasn't even the best on Alumni Field. Doing his best to look as wild and innovative as the early Fran Tarkenton. Boston College's Doug Flutie stole the spotlight. Throwing underhand, sidearing on the run, and while falling down, Flutie accounted for 304 yards through the air against the nation's best defense and kept his team...