Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dick Contino is one of the few men in musical history who have ever squeezed big money out of an accordion. When he steps out into a spotlight and flashes a smile almost as wide and white as the keyboard of his stomach Steinway, his lady fans go limp, men smile wanly, and the management gets ready to peel off up to $4,000 a week...
...opening night, husky and handsome in a midnight-blue tuxedo, he first stepped briskly into the spotlight and bared his wisdom teeth. Then he skittered into a fast, tricky arrangement of China Boy, letting a small smile play on his face, as if to cue the audience to the right light spirit. In Bewitched, he swayed like a stalk of wheat, closing his eyes and opening his mouth to cue in deep ecstasy. From there he went to Duke Ellington's hot, blaring Caravan. Then he took off his tie, loosened his collar, and launched into a friendly little...
...spotlight the crucial areas, our WAR IN ASIA section has a standing head called "Danger Zones." Just as U.S. foreign policy fails when it responds only to Communist pressure, so the editors would fail you if they reported only the noise of immediate clashes. To take the initiative in the struggle against Communist imperialism, we must know the grounds upon which they-or we-may seek the next decision
...lighting, and Will Irwin's incidental music. The play itself is as devoid of charm as it is of sense, and the players do not help much. Joan McCracken is almost overbearingly girlish. Eddie Dowling - dying at the end with a bright smile and a brighter spotlight on his face - displays his habitual unconquerable benevolence, his seeming desire to bring to humanity all the year round what A Christmas Carol brings it at Christmas...
These orgies, held during each reading period, were begun in 1940. So far classical music from pre-Bach to modern has been featured, but starting Friday, bop, jazz, hillbilly, and opera take the spotlight...