Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their documentary proved nothing new. It probably cured no addicts of the Communist drug pipe.* But in turning the spotlight of fact into dark corners of methods and basic philosophy, it achieved a notable success...
...trouble talking Florida's florid Senator Claude Pepper into being their candidate. Deadpan Claude Pepper, onetime champion of Russia, onetime apologist for Henry Wallace, onetime defender of Harry Truman against the Dixie rebels, and the last drummer in the Eisenhower parade, made the most of the spotlight. He strode into the abandoned Eisenhower headquarters, bussed his wife at the cameramen's request and proclaimed that he would "accept the draft." Said Claude Pepper: "This is no time for politics as usual...
Last week the barkers were having a picnic. It was as if Barnum & Bailey had come to the Balkans. Under the big Red top the Soviet Bear was calling the acts. In the spotlight the Cominform, nine-headed dog of the Kremlin, was beating up on Tito, Yugoslavia's own ringmaster. And the Communist puppets clapped like...
...customers with her Rockin' Chair. In the Manhattan basement called Café Society, she made the fans wait for what they had all come to hear. Not a pound under weight (at 190) in a shroudlike black gown, her swarthy features and shoe-button eyes gleaming in the spotlight, she teased them first with a couple of new ones - but in the familiar, sweetly sighing Bailey style. ("I couldn't sing big if I wanted to.") When they kept roaring for it, she finally gave them Rockin' Chair with a real tear glistening...
...Science cannot escape its social responsibilities," sighed Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, "but it was so nice when science was considered unimportant and was not in the spotlight...