Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toward the grape arbor for a game of boccie. On Wednesdays, Amelia Garavaglia, 76, flours her plump, competent hands in the back room of Gioia's Corner Market and begins rolling out 5,000 ravioli for sale hi the front room. Each evening, Ida Galli switches on the spotlight hi her front yard-not to scare away burglars, but to illuminate a 3-ft.-high statue of the Blessed Virgin. It is all part of the pleasant, unhurried flavor of life today on the Hill...
...battle for the spotlight, needless debate over procedures, politically-oriented resolutions and unnecessary exchanges of insults do the citizens of Cambridge no good. Perhaps Danehy's post-mayoral election anger will subside soon. Then the council can get down to the pressing business of running the city
...Vice President, Hubert Humphrey took on a real circus. Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey variety. In red sequined coat and black stovepipe hat ("I won't throw it into the ring, and that's the first time I've ever said that"), Senator Humphrey stepped into the spotlight before a packed audience of all ages at the Washington, D.C., armory. By longstanding tradition, the opening was billed as Congressional Night at the Circus. Seldom at a loss for words, Humphrey kept up an authentic ringmaster's patter for half an hour as North Dakota Senator Quentin Burdick...
There are some men who are thrust into the public eye by their actions, like a person who shows bravery in extreme conditions, and there are some men who can literally force their way into the spotlight, like politicians. And there are a very few man who become centers of national attention as much for what they do as for the way they...
People also puts the spotlight on people with no particular ability, but who are interesting either for being unusually pathetic victims or for being related to important people. "Interesting" is too strong a word to describe some of these people, though a word to describe some of these people, though, especially the ones like Tricia Nixon and Edward Cox or Claude and Paloma Picasso. Meeting Rabbi Baruch Korff might be intriguing, reading about...