Word: spotlighting
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...famously defined home as "where you keep your stuff." Specifically, it's where you keep your heart. It's where you sleep best, and where you feel most comfortable walking around naked. I propose that Hollywood isn't necessarily a physical place either, but rather any place where the spotlight makes things grow. It's where you preen best, and where your body double feels most comfortable walking around naked...
...behalf of Yul Bryant, a black man who was arrested after apparently being misidentified and whose charges have been dropped. Some of the cases are being appealed, the Department of Justice has been alerted to the problem, the media is on the case and Tulia finds itself in the spotlight - a spotlight that has led to all kinds of grandstanding, manipulation, alliance-forming and hammy acting. In other words, Tulia has become Hollywood. Helping get national publicity focused on the situation is Randy Credico, an activist from New York. Credico also happens to be a middle-aged standup comic...
...black. His doctors saved him by putting him into a deep freeze--a kind of virtual death--so they could stop his damaged heart and repair it. He awoke in a hospital three days later with a new heart valve and almost no memory of his ordeal. "Sometimes a spotlight can remind me of the lights above the operating table," he says, "but I only recall bits and pieces...
...There is one more wild card: Both camps are looking over their shoulders at this week's Middle East peace summit. If President Clinton comes home bearing good news, Gore will want to maneuver himself into the spotlight as a key member of the Clinton foreign relations team - while simultaneously distancing himself from the diplomatic failures associated with the renewed violence. Meanwhile, look for the governor to paint the clashes as a tragedy that might have been avoided by a more comprehensive and forward-thinking approach to foreign policy...
...fundamental change in the music. Refreshingly, it appears that Green Day has improved with the time and opportunity that resulted from their success. They even have hearts-Billie Joe dedicated a song to his wife on her birthday, even though she looked a bit embarrassed to be in the spotlight. And near the very end of the set, the band stopped a song entirely to issue this caring, if obvious, warning: "Take care of each other. Someone just got hurt. No show is more important than people's lives." It may not have been the punkest thing...