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...hands that can perform surgery for him in a hospital hundreds of miles away. Fighting crime? The Advanced Robotics Corp. is advertising a mechanical sentinel that can speed to the site of any breakin, sternly ask an intruder, "What are you doing here?" and temporarily blind him with its spotlight while its siren calls for help...
...think his thoughts. When Shingen's son, Katsuyori, eager to assume his dead father's power by exposing the double, challenges the compulsorily silent double at a large meeting, Kurosawa doesn't cut to the double's face for the comic reaction of a man stuck in the spotlight who doesn't know what to say. Instead, he shoots from behind the double; there is a silence and then he responds, surely as Shingen would have, and you feel the presence of the former lord in the double's silhouette...
...unit can shut down Diana, this year's Harvard defense can. The Crimson defenders have been the surprise of the year in Cambridge, frequently stealing the spotlight (and saving games) for Restic's much publicized and oft-ineffective Multiflex offense...
DIRTY LINEN CLINGS to the American stage more pertinaciously than any other Tom Stoppard play--as if hanging on for life. While other, richer Stoppard plays like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead or Jumpers tarried a brief moment in the spotlight and then scampered into classrooms to become "contemporary plays capable of being studied," Dirty Linen keeps rearing its head bashfully on the stage...
...still take a lot of shots and go for goals. I still like to score. I haven't lost that urge to be in the spotlight. I guess I'm still a prime donna. But this team's come a long way in four years and I've changed with...