Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lopsided presentation of the two roles of Susan and Ann gives Mayron more of the spotlight, but at the expense of an involving plot. Weill's documentary style uses everyday situations to reveal changes in the attitudes of the characters. Susan, however, holds the screen alone for so much of the film and so dominates it even when Ann appears that the film seems to be a celluloid diary of Susan's life as a young woman in New York. It's true to the city, and offers some well executed cameo roles of gallery owners and Soho artistes...
...must have been a heartache of many kinds. There was the horror of the assassination, of course, and the memory of his own wounds. And, back in Washington again, back in the spotlight, he must have pondered once more why he had not become President, why he should be President. There was not a flicker of that in his public testimony. But just as sure as the day was Wednesday, it was inside. All that testimony about the assassination will not put to rest the questions, the theories about conspiracy within and without the Government. But that may not have...
Brown's football career continued at its, semi-comical level for one more week("I ran out the clock against Columbia with 18 seconds left."), before Davenport's serious neck injury in the opening game against the Lions thrust Brown into the ambiguous spotlight of Harvard foot ball...
...Yanks in a big way--hitting 32 homers last year, while driving in 110 runs, and batting more than 20 points above his career average of .267. And then there were the five Series homers--three in the last game, on consecutive pitches. Reggae had stolen the spotlight again, away from the man who deserved it: Martin. It was Martin, after all, who held the club together, protecting them from the blathering criticisms of the man who is the real culprit in all of this--George Steinbrenner...
...settle for smaller pay increases. That, in brief, is Jimmy Carter's three-sided strategy. For the past two months, the White House has been lecturing Congress on spending and badgering business to put a lid on prices. Last week it was labor's turn in the spotlight, and the results were not encouraging...