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...Bernakevitch’s sudden heroics the night before, coming less than a minute into the third period of the semifinal against Dartmouth, that thrust him—ever-languishing in relative obscurity below most radars—into the spotlight...
...period later, the fourth line stepped up into the spotlight and received the praise of the crowd. With 11 minutes left in the game, senior Mina Pell took the puck off of a face-off and—mirroring a successful move by sophomore Julie Chu earlier in the period—skated through the Saints’ defense on the right and shot the puck past Barrie for her first goal of the season...
...came four centuries later: Filippino's fame had long since faded when England's Pre-Raphaelites "discovered" the genius of his forgotten teacher, lavished praise on his lyrical style and rhythmic lines, and elevated him to the status of a Renaissance icon - Botticelli. Now master and student share the spotlight at Florence's Palazzo Strozzi, allowing art lovers to make their own assessment of who was the greater. "Botticelli and Filippino: Passion and Grace in Fifteenth Century Florentine Painting" (through July 11) is the evolution of a smaller show held at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris earlier...
Champollion and Fischer were lucky: they were heroes in their time. Deprived of the spotlight, genius can grow up twisted and strange. David Hahn was the child of divorced, clueless parents living in a David Lynch--perfect Michigan suburb in the mid-1990s. A loner and a compulsive tinkerer, Hahn somehow got it into his head in high school to build a nuclear reactor in his mom's potting shed, and damn if he didn't come close. In The Radioactive Boy Scout (Random House; 209 pages), Ken Silverstein describes how Hahn extracted radioactive elements from household objects--americium from...
...while each cited the play of his two linemates as the driving force between their collective success, trying to deflect the spotlight, this much is clear: come Friday, Brown will be paying attention...