Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tynan smartly cracks the code of Carson's durable popularity. What you see is what you get: a complete professional, as fast on the draw as any who share his spotlight; a neatly dressed Midwesterner whose underlying rectitude is beamed to millions of weary nine-to-fivers as a conspiratorial wink indicating that show people may be glamorous, but they are not to be taken seriously Tynan, the great appreciator of rare abilities, can explain the aggressive surrealism of Mel Brooks' ethnic humor, but it does not quite appear to be the Briton...
...lights dim, and a hush falls over the audience. A trumpet fanfare pierces the silence; suddenly a spotlight beam, crossing the stage of the New York Metropolitan Opera, illuminates the figure of a young man in a high priest's robe: Matthew Diller '81. A tenor aria fills the air; the audience stirs, and is moved to rousing applause. Diller turns to the audience, strides downstage, and then exits to the roar of the crowd--followed by high priests number two through twelve. From the wings, he watches the tenor take...