Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White is at his best in the bitter lament, Strange Fruit, with the power that only this type of singing can achieve. The room is dark except for the lone spotlight which shines from above. The audience is quiet with an intense silence. White finishes the song, the spot goes out, and there is no movement for almost a minute. And then applause...
...eyes. The microphone boom collided several times with the light pan, produced one bang so resounding that the actors looked up and momentarily blew their lines. Even the electricians went haywire: as Viveca composed a farewell letter to her lover, the lights went on, then off, and finally a spotlight eerily picked out the coffin of her illegitimate son. Viveca gamely went on writing her letter...
Sharing the psychopathic spotlight with Gary Merrill, Miss Davis spends most of the film trying to kill him by one subtle means or another. After each attempt, Merrill stumbles back and tries to win her love. Although the plot is extremely complex, it is plausible and fast-moving. Merrill's tendencies towards action and violence are well balanced against Miss Davis' scheming and inner force...
...Finance Committee, opened with a few introductory remarks barely audible above the conversing and chair-scraping on the floor, and an invocation followed. Then the head table underwent a complete change. As the toastmaster read off the names of the dignatories, they rose and, pinpointed by an orange spotlight, walked the width of the stage, down the few steps to the floor, and sat themselves at one of the round tables. Each table on the floor sent one person in return up to the dias. "The backfield should be down there," said the toastmaster, "and the workers up here...
...diners finished off their demi-tasses, the toastmaster announced the Grand New March. A blue spotlight blanked on, wandered around the stage, and finally fell upon a heavy woman dressed in black and with long, flashing carrings, who was striding toward the microphone at the edge of the platform. The orchestra struck up a jaunty melody and there was a song about marching on. The audience joined in on the second stanza and a hand stuck out over the balcony to wave time...