Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korean war turned the news spotlight on some little-known Americans and Koreans...
...frenzied Little Esther fans through the door-several hundred more than fire regulations call for. Dressed in demure organdy, roly-poly Little Esther herself had to step over a circle of backstage crapshooters to get onstage. Once there, she flashed a big gold tooth into the spotlight. Bandleader Johnny Otis laid down a fat and winsome chord, and Little Esther cut her big, warm, billowing voice adrift on a blues...
Florida hogged the spotlight, but there were a few other lively performers onstage...
...Unilever had deliberately sought the antithesis of spotlight-hungry Chuck Luckman, Jerry Babb was indeed their man. He was not only unknown to most businessmen, he was also almost unknown in Racine. He had taken part in no civic affairs, had spent his spare time playing golf (low 80s), and bridge. Commuting to work from his suburban home, he often plays cribbage on the train...
Plenty of Fitzgerald fans are passionately certain that no other girl singer has come even close to Ella since that night. In the basement world of jazz, where fashions can change as fast as a teenager's voice, Ella has filled the smoke-blurred spotlight for well over a "decade. She has filled it almost as long upstairs in the air-conditioned, palm-frond land of popular dance music. In 1938 she became a national hit when her record of her own song A-Tisket A-Tasket began the fad for swinging nursery rhymes. In 1946 she recorded...