Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the characters drift down memory lane, the directors switch to a blue spotlight. This almost campy technique works because of its campiness: the audience laughs, but at the same time, the light focuses the audience on Steve's monologue. When he reminisces, the audience chuckles. But when he concludes, "Anticlimax--I like that word" and the light snaps off, the theme that links these characters' lives lingers...
Last year, Soucy was the precocious rookie stealing the spotlight from veteran goaltenders. Soucy's now the veteran, and he better watch his back...
Even in legal situations, players are thrust into the national spotlight and dissected in sports pages coast to coast in the morning. Somewhere along the line, the fact that these athletes are kids, not adults, seems to have been forgotten...
...many students remain non-believers andshine a much less rosy spotlight on the Core. Themost common criticism centers on the Core office'slack of flexibility, especially when it comes toaccepting departmental courses for Core credit...
...order to get into Clinton's spotlight, Flynn has had to compromise his constituents. If Flynn keeps up his hands-off approach, other, more visible areas of the city may crash and burn, forcing Bostonians to ask whether Flynn really is a modern-day Honey Fitz...