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...most significant innovation comes in Rose's Turn, an outpouring of Rose's bitter longing for the spotlight. Where Daly played the scene in a fury, Midler gradually enters into the fantasy and smiles, flaunts her bosom, coyly sells herself to an imaginary audience. At the end, she and her daughter reach a reconciliation more convincing and complete than in most interpretations...
...about to be outpaced, then pulled together the results of his group's ongoing research, which will be published in the journal on Dec. 17. Acting as race stewards, the editors of Cell decided to lift the embargo on the Vogelstein article so that both groups could share the spotlight last week...
...rough-and-tumble, folksy ways had worked well for Johnson in the Senate's closed and clubby atmosphere and made him respected and feared among the Capitol's insiders. But his style often raised ridicule and suspicion in the national spotlight where he had to dwell as President. Life-and-death issues like the cold war and Vietnam required, more than anything, calm, study and courage -- not theatrics...
...national spotlight trains on people such as Larry Hogue, a chronic mental patient and crack abuser who terrorized Manhattan's Upper West Side, or Andres Huang, the transient accused of building the campfire that recently set off a raging blaze in California. "About two years ago, we began to see what is almost a national arms race to criminalize homelessness," says Madeleine Stoner, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California. "People are beginning to fear for their safety." Concurs Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, the man charged by the Clinton Administration with devising...
...cellist, a banjoist and a mandolinist--accompanying Natalie is superb. For such a large acoustic band, they sound wonderful, complementing each other perfectly throughout every song. The musicians all know that Natalie is the star, so there is no need for anyone else to try and steal the spotlight; instead, they focus on playing well together. Track after track features subtly lyrical arrangements. "It's true that you are touched by something," Merchant sings in the album's opener, "These Are Days," and this sums up the feeling the listener gets from this album, It leaves you with a warm...