Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...operate with little of the bureaucratic bumbling and political waffling that afflicts nationalized industry in other countries. In Italy, state managers combine the prudence of the civil servant and the dash of the entrepreneur with chilling effectiveness. Usually indifferent to the trappings of authority and the dazzle of the spotlight, they nonetheless wield enormous power-often greater than that of many Cabinet ministers...
...house lights faded. Some hysterical flunkie welcomed everyone to the Big Event--concluding, "And the poet..., the poet..., the poet(!) is YEVTUSHENKO!" The lanky frame of 38-year-old Yevgeny Yevtushenko filled the spotlight. He wore his usual uniform of a gray turtleneck sweater and slacks. In his broken English, the Soviet poet indicated that between performances he had been upstairs in the main sports arena. "I promise to return and fill the main stage," he said. "Who says America doesn't like poetry?" Whether or rather how America likes poetry is not the immediate question; the question...
...finished the poem, his right hand arched upwards into the smoky spotlight air in a mighty gesture of evangelism. Yet the cosmopoet was always stagebound, always in his political poems, judging the audience's response. A nervous sense of commercialism shackled his ascent. The sublime, that mostly mystical state of imaginative transport, eluded him and certainly his audience. And certainly one can not expect to find his highest excellence of art in the nuts and bolts of topical evanescence in the bump and bulk of rush-hour urgency...
...They shined their big spotlight on him, and his big ol' red beery eyeballs take a squint at the situation and don't like what they see. Like an armadillo rooted out at night, cross as hell...
Shortly after his dramatic descent, one spotlight shifted to the back of the room, and down towards the stage came a model displaying the Five Point Geometric Hair Style. "The style that started it all for me," the world-famous hairdresser triumphantly said...