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...properties of a ring of invisibility or seven-league boots. They are displayed almost theatrically, lit from top and bottom, hanging on clear strings, supported by glass shelves or plastic stands, and like the stone totems or magic tokens at Dahlem, picked out of a surrounding darkness by spotlight. There, carefully designed panels and charts locate the object on grids of time and space, and, like the advertising in Europa Center, give the argument of the drama enacted in the crystalline stage beneath: the object dissolves into the play of its powers and properties. People could be so fascinated with...
...SERIES of powerful shots of downtown Kingston, music enables Director Perry Henzell to move quickly from closeup to closeup without disrupting the viewer's overall perspective. Music knifes through the film as the constant reminder of the attraction of the successful hustle. Henzell is able to spotlight key segments of dialogue by removing the mantle of sound, and isolating them in sudden stark silence...
...spanking-new bandshell at Point Mallard Park gave Kennedy what he has not had for months, and what he will need if his name is to stay at the head of the '76 seedings, a place in the spotlight of national press attention...
Just as Time escorted activism off the national stage, so had it several years earlier ushered it into the spotlight--this time, too, with Harvard setting the pace. The Harvard strike of 1969 was enshrined on the front cover of Time as one of those events that had Made It. Never mind that students at other universities had rebelled while Harvard was still simmering quietly--the movement only counted when it arrived in Cambridge...
...summit will almost certainly enhance Brezhnev's prestige and position in the Soviet Union. Until recently the Moscow hierarchy was a determinedly collective leadership. Brezhnev's dealings are still sharply defined within the perimeters set by the Politburo. But since the last summit, when he shared the spotlight with President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Kosygin, he has handled the show alone. In a major Politburo shake-up in April, he dispatched two of the strongest opponents of his policies. His official job - General Secretary of the Communist Party - does not entitle him to so much prominence. (Unlike Stalin...