Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jean Smith, were magnets to the old Kennedy hands, and Ethel, who had broken her leg while skiing, joked in a wheelchair. Kathleen (R.F.K.'s eldest) was the quintessential Radcliffe girl in granny glasses and flowing hair. Eldest son Joe-being nudged more and more into the family spotlight-gracefully presented bronze busts of his father to the winners. But it was the indomitable 81-year-old Rose who out-Kennedyed them all. After catnapping ever so lightly through some of the preliminaries, she rose to speak for the family. "I feel a little like old wine," she mused...
...poachers can sell their prey for about $6 per foot, but they do not get them without a struggle. Poaching must be done at night-partly to avoid agents and partly to catch the slumbering alligators. The poacher blinds the animal with a spotlight, then approaches in his boat and fires a "brain shot" between the eyes with a .22-cal. rifle. A good poacher gets a rolled skin into his boat in 15 minutes. "They can get a 'gator out of his jacket real fast," says Federal Agent Andrew Pursley...
Somewhat in the manner of royalty, Ingrid Bergman deigns to make an infrequent city-to-city tour before her oohing and aahing subjects. Lovely to look at, graciously regal in bearing, exotically foreign in accent, she does not remotely intend for any playwright to steal the spotlight. An assiduous search through a trunkful of lesser Shaw has provided the perfect vehicle in Captain...
Back at the Loeb, the musical menu also lists performances by the Collegium Musicum, the Harvard University Band, and Professor Leon Kirchner's Performance Seminar. The seminar performances are being organized by Currier House music tutor Jay Gottlieb. He sees the Festival as "focusing the spotlight on the arts here." More informally, Mike Luskin is scheduling Chamber Group Concerts by Harvard students in the Loeb West Lobby. These concerts will be held in the afternoons and will provide a lovely accompaniment to a stroll through the Festival's Student Art Show. The exhibit is a collection of everything from photography...
...squads placed high in past Nationals, won't be fighting for the team title this year, but it is hard to imagine him remaining in the shadows for very long. TV commentators, who sneer at the name of Harvard in national competition, may find the Crimson in the national spotlight--perhaps as soon as next year...