Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their routine was unvaried. At an imperceptible signal from stiffly erect Colonel Podhajsky, eight smartly dressed riders doffed their two-cornered hats in a courtly bow to the crowd. Then eight white stallions paraded in stately fashion through an intricate precision quadrille. The spotlight event was an exhibition of cadenced, old-school courbettes, croupades and caprioles, all of them stylizations of the leaping, twisting, fighting and frolicking of high-spirited horses in pasture...
...illusion," wrote leggy Literatease Gypsy Rose Lee in Variety, by way of explaining the secret of her success. Way back "when the rest of the gals at Minsky's were working on the third layer of skin [and covering] themselves with a dark blue spotlight, I covered myself with a Shubert pink and black lace undies...
...were performances in the Festspielhaus and the open-air Rocky Riding School, not quite up to snuff, of Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute. But last week the first postwar performance of the late Richard Strauss's last opera edged Mozart momentarily out of the spotlight...
...Korea has focused the news spotlight on some faces that have long been familiar to TIME readers - especially in times of trouble. This week General Bradley makes his fourth appearance on TIME'S cover. Last week Joseph Stalin was there for the eighth time. A fortnight ago General MacArthur turned up for his seventh cover. Each of their cover portraits is reproduced below with a characteristic quotation from the stories about them - a partial record of what TIME has been saying about these news figures over the last two decades...
Because nature often takes a bad picture, TV cameramen have learned a few tricks to titivate nature's frowzy face. Examples: strips of cloth dangled before a spotlight make a plausible flickering fire, and broken brown glass piled over a light bulb and sprinkled with titanium tetrachloride is a convincing pile of smoldering coals. Dry pablum, confetti or bleached corn flakes are used as a snow flurry; ice cream salt is hail, and raw white rice shaken from a colander looks enough like rain. Glycerine spray makes studio props appear...