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...spotlight the crucial areas, our WAR IN ASIA section has a standing head called "Danger Zones." Just as U.S. foreign policy fails when it responds only to Communist pressure, so the editors would fail you if they reported only the noise of immediate clashes. To take the initiative in the struggle against Communist imperialism, we must know the grounds upon which they-or we-may seek the next decision
...lighting, and Will Irwin's incidental music. The play itself is as devoid of charm as it is of sense, and the players do not help much. Joan McCracken is almost overbearingly girlish. Eddie Dowling - dying at the end with a bright smile and a brighter spotlight on his face - displays his habitual unconquerable benevolence, his seeming desire to bring to humanity all the year round what A Christmas Carol brings it at Christmas...
These orgies, held during each reading period, were begun in 1940. So far classical music from pre-Bach to modern has been featured, but starting Friday, bop, jazz, hillbilly, and opera take the spotlight...
Their routine was unvaried. At an imperceptible signal from stiffly erect Colonel Podhajsky, eight smartly dressed riders doffed their two-cornered hats in a courtly bow to the crowd. Then eight white stallions paraded in stately fashion through an intricate precision quadrille. The spotlight event was an exhibition of cadenced, old-school courbettes, croupades and caprioles, all of them stylizations of the leaping, twisting, fighting and frolicking of high-spirited horses in pasture...
...illusion," wrote leggy Literatease Gypsy Rose Lee in Variety, by way of explaining the secret of her success. Way back "when the rest of the gals at Minsky's were working on the third layer of skin [and covering] themselves with a dark blue spotlight, I covered myself with a Shubert pink and black lace undies...