Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dream Teamers were up against other kinds of obstacles. Weren't they just All-Stars, coach Chuck Daly was constantly being asked, or merely Hollywood Globetrotters? Why did they dominate the spotlight here? Why did they not stay in the Olympic Village? One reason was that 7-ft. millionaires are not easy to hide, and everywhere they went, the American players were mobbed by the stars of a hundred nations eager to have their picture taken with them, or just to catch a touch of sympathetic magic. Even El Loco, when asked why he wore the number 32, referred...
...maneuvering room is shrinking. The allies are determined now to rein him in lest the U.N. lose credibility and Saddam be tempted by further adventures. They plan to insist that Americans serve on future inspection teams, to spotlight every Iraqi evasion of U.N. resolutions, and to boost aid to Kurds and exiled opponents of Saddam. This week the Security Council is expected to take up a resolution permitting military strikes unless Baghdad stops attacking Shi'ites in the south. The strategy, says a U.S. diplomat, is to "keep Saddam...
Gallo, one of the world's most famous -- and ambitious -- scientists, probably did not know that the virus he isolated was a contaminant that came from a sample sent to him by Montagnier's lab. But Gallo grabbed the spotlight and tried to deny the significance of the French achievement -- until the facts came out and Montagnier got the credit he deserved. A pained smile plays over Montagnier's face as he recalls the years of bitter charges and countercharges. "The whole scientific community followed Gallo," he says. "We knew we were right, even if we were the only people...
...feel for Chelsea. No matter how much her parents try to shield her from the spotlight, the public will continue to scrutinize everything from her hairdo to her clothing to her speech. And if her dad makes it into the White House, things will only get worse. Seventeen will publish a spread on 1600 Pennsylvania avenue's youngest resident; Sassy will run an interview and print every "like" and "um" Chelsea utters. She will be thrust headfirst into the role of American Spokesteen...
...overwrought vision of possession and sexual hysteria. A co- production with Covent Garden, it was directed as an arresting theater piece by British experimental director David Freeman. Freeman uses gymnasts as the devils who torment the heroine, having rehearsed them in concentrated, mesmerizing animal movements that quickly steal the spotlight from the singers. Trendy? Possibly. But the production maintains its musical balance as well...