Word: spotlighting
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...essentially one large dance party with a vague theatrical reason to keep it going, but the choreography, the movement, the blocking is such that, for the most part, it seamlessly carries through. Even as they move through the crowd in preparation for their next appearance in the spotlight, the actors keep the audience involved; “Do I look okay?” Sander asked one audience member as he rushed to the stage to meet his love Mia. Though it may not at all resemble the theater that modern audiences are accustomed to, “The Donkey...
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...also hoping to prolong their own two-game winning streak. “It’s one of those games that’s really going to determine our season,” Akpan said. “A win over [BU] will put us in the national spotlight and it’ll really get our season going.” The threat is clear. The Terriers recently delivered a 3-0 upset to No. 12 Connecticut last Saturday. And, like Harvard, BU has posted a shooting percentage more than six times better than its opponents. Of particular...
...shakier footing, even though the details of enforcement mechanisms for the bill have not been worked out. He was claiming something - benefits for illegal immigrants - that is expressly prohibited in the major legislative efforts in both houses of Congress. He was becoming the sideshow the President wanted to spotlight, and as such Wilson handed a great gift to his political enemies, for whom he clearly has little regard...
...difficulty stems from the natural give-and-take of the legislative process and how it plays out in the media. The larger goals, they say, get lost in the politics and the arguments over individual aspects of the bills. What Obama and his strategists concluded - paradoxically - was that the spotlight of a presidential address could take the public's attention off the politicians (including a President whose approval ratings have been edging down) and put it back on the larger goals that Obama is trying to achieve. As a senior White House official explained a few hours before the speech...