Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first contestants were two articulate World War II veterans named Jack and Dick, who had primed for their moment in the spotlight as if going into combat. Instead of being cloistered in isolation booths like the early quiz- show participants, the two men stood behind individual lecterns, as solitary as Hemingway heroes. The questions -- posed by a distinguished panel of journalists to reassure viewers that nothing was rigged -- demanded both a detailed knowledge of government programs (farm subsidies and the Tennessee Valley Authority) and a travel writer's mastery of obscure foreign locales (Ghana, Laos and Formosa...
Lazor's absence from the spotlight is understandable: He has neither the pin-point arm of Fiedler nor the improvisational athleticism of Giardi. He is a three-step dropback passer, pure and simple...
...athletes. Rude connivance becomes the capering wit of Jewish comics and writers and composers, their amazing gift for parody and synthesis. Folks who would never care to be near "those people" want to watch them, learn how to walk or talk from them -- be them, at least for that spotlight moment. Maybe it is America's awe at the drive of these performers to be good and be loved that makes show biz one part of the multicultural experiment that really works...
After Yale took the plunge, Brown and Princeton moved into the spotlight. The Bears rose to 14th, while Princeton (which has been ranked in two years) entered...
This is how it works. Say the President signs a regulatory bill--the Clean Air Act, for example--in full media spotlight. Say some business people don't like it. Say they complain to the Council. The staff of the Council will review it and may in turn recommend certain changes in the legislation to the agency that is responsible for implementing...