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...over Christmas displays on public property has occupied civil libertarians for years and is often overshadowed by constitutional struggles waged on the national level, such as that over prayer in schools. But a Rhode Island Circuit Court of Appeals judge last month pushed the creche issue back into the spotlight by upholding a 1981 ruling forbidding the city of Pawtucket from mounting a manger scene. That city responded intelligently, selling its display to a private group which put it up on private property...
...theatrics, Erté has always been a prodigiously hardworking artist who, for nearly seven decades, has spent virtually every night, all night, at his desk. He habitually sketches and paints in a dark room under a single spotlight, listening to recordings of Beethoven and Schubert. Since 1935 he has lived in an apartment in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, with a succession of cats as companions. "Being alone is vitally important for me and my work. I'm like a cat, solitary, independent and quiet by nature," he says. To keep in shape he works regularly with weights...
Corbat claims that he has played only for enjoyment. "I don't really play the game to be in the spotlight," he said...
Roberto Duran bullied him and took his title in June of 1980, but Leonard retrieved it five months later. Duran, after shivering all his great lightweight career in the shade of Muhammad Ali's shadow, came into the spotlight as if out of a cave and was greeted by an Ali just his size. He rubbed his eyes. Later he rubbed his stomach. When Duran quit in the eighth round of the return match, a Leonard tour de force, nobody could believe either the alibi-the little wolf had wolfed down too much lunch-or the truth: an uncivilized...
...ONLY TWO SPOTS does Rush trip over the illusion he has created--and in each case the self-consciousness of the directorial gesture, not its content, spoils the effect. Before the play starts, a spotlight focuses on the stage's real rolling un Shakespearean tones what the audience's curiosity as to "what's behind the curtain," game show style. Far bit for this reviewer to reveal what in Fact happens when the curtains part later on. But if the admittedly stunning effect is intended to be integral to the production, why bill it to all intents and purposes...