Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public concern rising over paycuts and layoffs, some Tories argue that the Prime Minister would be better off taking the matter to the country with an antiunion campaign fashioned on the theme "Who Governs Britain?" But an election waged on the labor issue would be divisive. It would also spotlight the fact that Heath's policy of unfettered economic growth had failed. Warned the London Times: "The class bitterness and political mayhem would leave behind social wreckage that would take years to clear...
...Globe offered no competition, but it unproved abruptly after Tom Winship, 53, became editor in 1965. The following year the Globe won a Pulitzer Prize for its campaign to block a federal judgeship for Francis X. Morrissey, a crony of Joseph P. Kennedy's. Its four-man "Spotlight" investigative team picked up another Pulitzer for a 1971 expose of municipal scandals in neighboring Somerville. The Globe, which had not backed a presidential candidate since 1900, changed policy by declaring for Humphrey in '68 and McGovern in '72. It was the third U.S. daily (after the New York...
...public spotlight has hardly ever illuminated Harvey Brooks, but the dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics has been a behind-the-scenes power in two Harvard administrations and several national ones as well...
Once he resigns, he will step smoothly into the national spotlight. Last week, with appropriate fanfare, he held the first meeting of his National Commission on Critical Choices for America, a kind of ad hoc think tank that will debate the central issues of the day. Its 40 members, all chosen by Rocky from various pursuits and from both major political parties, include Vice President Gerald Ford; Sol Linowitz, chairman of the National Urban Coalition; Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Ambassador to India; Ivan Allen, former mayor of Atlanta; Nancy Hanks, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts; William Paley, chairman...
...light show featured a reflected geodosic sphere, assorted strobes, police car lights and a multicolor remote control spotlight that ranged around the set and the audience, looming 20 feet above the stage. Visual affects climaxed during the 18-minute version of the AM hit "Frankenstein" when Winter released a heavy smoke screen of CO2 gas that enveloped the stage and choked front row spectators...