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Word: spotlighting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...judge from a recent album of re-issues called Louis Armstrong Paris, 1934, (Vox Spotlight No.300) the high C lovers were not disappointed. Louis must have been in wonderful physical condition. Though his tone had already thinned down, and his improvisations would sometimes degenerate into redundant lip exercises, his playing had a certain, since lost brilliance, and if like later virtuosos he prostituted his art as a concession to the franc, still it remained a rather original kind of prostitution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz | 11/18/1947 | See Source »

...polar calm of Hollywood's Ciro's, whose audiences are notoriously cool to anyone who isn't yet fashionable in Manhattan, Kay Thompson was packing them in at $3,000 a week. Dressed in one of her 25 sleek slack-suits, Comedienne Thompson stepped into the spotlight, looking like a caricature of the neurotic, world-weary woman of the '20s. Bouncing about behind her were the four young, mobile-faced Williams brothers, who served as a kind of combination corps de ballet and hot choir. Anything went: patter, pantomime or pratfalls, and Pauvre Suzette, a song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dizzy-Making | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Problems of special artistic media, trends in literature and the arts, the process of creative activity, and the range of public communication and understand will hold the spotlight at the conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vassar Invites Local Delegates to Meeting About Creative Arts | 11/7/1947 | See Source »

...rather have no rally than a poor one like last week's," said Varsity football manager John P. Judkins '47 yesterday, thereby shifting tonight's pre-Dartmouth game festivities spotlight o the University Band's Sanders Theatre concert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Team Nixes Rally And Leaves Green Spotlight to Band | 10/24/1947 | See Source »

Back in the dark, drums were softly brushed. Nellie struck a big fat chord. Underneath the piano, her gilded sandal began to slap the floor. And with a pixyish glance up into the smoke-filled spotlight, Nellie was on her way. From behind a shiny gold tooth came a big voice with dust in it-singing Hurry On Down, a husky tune Nellie herself wrote. First, her piano accompanied her with knotty background chords while she sang; on a second chorus, she accompanied the piano (which she plays in a style reminiscent of the musician she most admires, Duke Ellington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hurry On Down | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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