Word: spotlighting
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...AIDS debate is only the first act in a busy agenda for council president Holbrooke, who during his month in the post wants to keep the spotlight shining on Africa. He has already held an open discussion on sub-Saharan refugees, has invited Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms to address the council, and is trying to broker a peace in the multicountry Congo...
Washington may not want Iraq policy in the spotlight during an election year, but why should Moscow care? Russia made life difficult for the U.S. Monday by formally rejecting Kofi Annan's nomination of Swedish diplomat Rolf Ekeus to head up a new U.N. weapons-monitoring commission in Iraq. Ekeus, a former head of the soon-to-be-disbanded UNSCOM, had been widely viewed as being both sufficiently diplomatic and sufficiently forceful to get the job done, but the Russian veto reflects deep divisions in the Security Council over the future of sanctions against Iraq. "The U.S. wants...
...spotted by an agent at age 8 playing Tiny Tim onstage in A Christmas Carol. Several TV and stage roles later, the scrawny, blue-eyed Frankie, his mother Denise and his sister Cristina, 15, are moving from Woodridge, N.J., to Los Angeles and getting ready for life in the spotlight. This month, not only has Malcolm hit the airwaves in a flurry of hype--Fox is plugging it hard after a cataclysmic fall season--but Muniz's first movie, the 1940s coming-of-age story My Dog Skip, is opening...
...begin sitting down, with Alanis Morissette, who remained on a stool for her act, performing a number of her ballads including "Ironic," "You Learn" and "That I Would Be Good." Amber, the newest artist among the performers, followed Morissette and made the most of her moment in the spotlight. Using the opportunity to plug her new album, she passed out advertising postcards and performed a large repertoire of her new songs. Perhaps she dragged on a bit too long--the audience shared little of her enthusiasm. But she redeemed herself with her closing performance of "Sexual," introducing the number with...
...numbers. Almost every scene has the storytellers, or chorus, sitting in white robes on the edges of the stage. And perhaps most importantly, the vocal coherence of the musical is often lost when the cast begins dancing to a musical number. Lighting adjustments, such as more use of the spotlight to focus the audience on the soloists, would alleviate the problem...