Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent word round to the broadcasting people, asking them to hold three minutes of national radio-TV time right after the presidential nomination on Wednesday night. At that time, presumably, Lyndon would disclose his choice. By keeping mum until then, he will have succeeded also in keeping the spotlight on himself; he enjoys that sort of thing immensely...
...NOISE. Electronic racket raisers, says the colonel, "will project high-intensity, variable-pitch sounds, blatting, shrieking noises, etc., in such volume that they will be almost intolerable to the human ear." Another promising device: "A revolving, car-roof-mounted, flashing spotlight of such brilliance that it will temporarily affect the vision of rioters...
Outside the trade, not everyone has heard his name. For Norell is concerned with style, not the spotlight, and with grace, not gimmicks. Never fussy without purpose, his talent lies in taste and a discriminating eye, in a flair for fabric and a sense of color, in a subtle bit of seamwork, an intricate set of pleats, a bead, a button, some spangles, a feather. Norell is neither set in his ways, like Mainbocher, nor out to amaze like Rudi Gernreich (of the topless-suit Gernreichs). He is a fashion moderate in step with the day, inventive but practical, inspired...
What probably most moved the sisters was a raging soliloquy by a young actress named Diana Sands. Her lover has been murdered by a white man. Standing alone in a spotlight with the stage dark behind her, her pretty face turns visibly gaunt with agony as she hurls her love-born hate at God's "icy snow-white heaven! If He is somewhere around this fearful planet, if I ever see Him, I will spit in his face! In God's face! How dare He presume to judge a living soul . . . Oh, let me be pregnant...
...just the great face from Shoot the Piano Player that lighted the souls of Aznavour's audience. It was more the philosophical songs. Aznavour turns to his audience, the spotlight centers on his face, his combo establishes a quiet minor key in the background, and Aznavour spits out enough lyrics to supply Tin Pan Alley for a year. The lyrics Aznavour writes are "about things that people gladly do, but do not dare talk about"; before one song, he says, "this is very French, but then I am French." The lyrics, intricately rhymed manifestos, present philosophies of life; Aznavour delivers...