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...Republican in Delaware County, the right wing bastion situated between Philadelphia and the state of Delaware. The county seat in Media, of F.B.I. fame. The 1971 heist and subsequent publication of secret papers from the one-man bureau office in Media put the town briefly into the national spotlight, for the first time since Carl MacIntyre's radio station there was shut down...
...aged figure of Abolitionist Douglass struggled out of the chair. "Agitate!" he cried. "Agitate! Agitate!" Blackout. A single spotlight cut through the darkness, focusing on the old rocking chair-now empty, still swaying back and forth. The audience rose to its feet for a thunderous ovation...
...sulky Bob Dylan (Christopher Guest), lurking offstage like Achilles in his tent, comes bounding before the spotlight when fistfuls of greenbacks are offered. The dynamic, petite and greatly gifted Alice Playten makes a spastic dithyramb of her takeoff on Mick Jagger. The mimicking of motorcycle addicts and musicians so stoned that they hold onto their mike stands as if they were swaying lampposts is all well-etched commentary, held together by an endearingly bumbling announcer (John Belushi) who sometimes cannot read the slips in his hand...
...students probably could not identify 60-year-old Tip O'Neill, but they soon will become aware of his singular personality. Moving into the office of former Majority Leader Hale Boggs, (D-La.), whose plane vanished over Alaska last October, O'Neill is suddenly being thrown into the media spotlight...
...opposed to Ford, Brooks has shunned the spotlight and is not very well known in the University community. He assisted Dunlop, maintaining a low profile and masterminding Faculty legislation from behind the scenes...