Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part, Ross Perot, still the wild card among the Big Three, tried to scramble out of the political spotlight with a self-imposed hiatus in his un- campaign. The Texas billionaire, citing "saturation bombing" of his offices by the press, beat a strategic retreat to search for answers to the questions he should dread: his specific stands on the budget deficit, health care, urban policy, international aid and every other complex problem that elicits reams of position papers from presidential hopefuls. This clever move comes at the right time, just when the press is beginning to dig its unforgiving claws...
...increasingly crowded stand-up stage, Carlin remains in a spotlight by himself. Most current TV comics are interchangeable: dispensing predictable, painless gags about '90s values, sexual gamesmanship, TV sitcoms and Dan Quayle. After three decades in the business, Carlin, who turns 54 this week, is still testing the limits, challenging his audience, shouting from the depths of his social-activist soul...
...Cosby Show may get a shock. Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner), a junior-high student when the series began, is graduating from college. Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe), once a pudgy preteen, is in college too, and has weathered a broken engagement. Cute little Rudy (Keshia Knight Pulliam) has ceded the spotlight to a passel of even cuter, littler kids: Olivia, 6, stepdaughter of No. 2 daughter Denise (who is married but doesn't appear on the show) and two tykes who belong to eldest daughter Sondra (who is married but does). Still with...
...some extent, Clinton may be suffering merely from being a newcomer to the national spotlight -- and one who quickly got tabbed as the Democratic front runner, thus assuring himself of exceptionally early and intense scrutiny. Clinton's wife Hillary recently wondered aloud why George Bush was not also being relentlessly pummeled about his character. Though she quickly apologized for raising the particular issue that she did -- whispers, never substantiated, that Bush had had an extramarital affair -- she had a point. Why has Bush not been questioned incessantly about his son Neil's involvement with a savings and loan association that...
...defeated on the campaign trial in recent weeks, and aides say he has not decided what to do next. He has talked on occasion about starting a permanent campaign for political reform like Ralph Nader's, but some wonder if Brown will want to labor politically when the media spotlight...