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...from Revolutionary times, Commencement has also been a forum for serious debate, epitomized first by the "Thesis and Question" and more recently by the featured speech. As Samuel Eliot Morison shows in his Three Centuries of Harvard, speakers invariably chose to exploit their moment in Harvard's unique spotlight by addressing one of the burning issues...
...soccer player who orchestrated that initial whitewash, freshman goalkeeper Tracee Whitley, was only the first of many Yardlings in the sports spotlight this year...
More serious -- and moving -- tributes were offered to two absent friends. One afternoon a single spotlight illuminated the Palais stage -- the aura left vacant by Francois Truffaut, who died at 52 last October -- and slowly two dozen figures gathered in the shadows. Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant and a host of old colleagues were there to wreathe the great director's memory in their affection and gratitude...
...rafters, is a cavernous expanse of catwalks, stairways, trapdoors and art deco modules that glide across the stage unloading and gobbling up performers. A string quartet provides onstage musical accompaniment, while the actors (their faces often decorated with red or green war paint) are showered with a hodgepodge of spotlight effects meant to simulate movie close-ups. Most of the 3 1/2 hours is played at fever-pitch intensity; yet the climactic dueling scene is performed in virtual darkness, and in hushed tones barely above a whisper...
...Rocky Mountains. The two offer a startling physical contrast: Davis is a 6-ft. 4-in. bear weighing 300 lbs. and fond of enveloping friends in an enormous embrace; Murdoch is trim, 5 in. shorter and circumspect, though cordial, in manner. Both share an aversion to the spotlight, a passion for long working hours and, more to the point, a consuming interest in making their millions beget more millions...