Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shadow-the bitter split within the Baptist Church over admitting blacks to membership. June Turner, wife of a deacon who opposes this change, talked about the agony to come, and tears slipped from her eyes. Without speaking his name, she blamed Jimmy Carter for pushing their church "into the spotlight, for putting it into politics." She wore no Carter button. Plains has produced a new President for the '70s, but is still fighting a battle...
...papers, the one that played stories more sensationally, and the one whose reporting was generally of a lower quality. The Globe, partly because of its inclusion a few years ago in Time Magazine's list of the ten best newspapers in the country and partly because of its "Spotlight Team" prize-winning investigative series, has been viewed as the city's most influential newspaper...
...Pinter's stage directions advise. In the Loeb Ex's sensitive production, however, the final spotlight rests on Anna. The meaning of the ending thus shifts slightly: Anna's inclusion in the household becomes as important as Kate's victory. Our last glimpse is of the unhappy equilibrium the three combatants have reached...
Buck Passers. The maritime unions were propelled into the spotlight in late September when Special Prosecutor Charles Ruff began investigating reports that President Ford had made illegal use of union campaign contributions. Ford had indeed received legal campaign contributions from the unions, and Ruff last week cleared him of any wrongdoing regarding these funds. Thus the net effect of the whole episode may be to emphasize a fact long familiar in Washington: the little maritime unions are some of the biggest and boldest political spenders around. "No one is busier on Capitol Hill," says a congressional staffer who handles merchant...
...punctuation seems gratuitous, and ceases, save for the caesuras of commas. Voices are heard: "we," who dare to go in and find the patriarch dead; "he," with a deceptively small "h," the patriarch; a series of "I's" who speak when their event is picked out by the roving spotlight of Marquez' description...