Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...radio show, broadcast weekly "from ocean to ocean, with lotions of love," makes Winchell, in every sense, a media monster. He knows there is something cancerous about American celebrity ("The spotlight," he says, "sheds a poison"), but he can't see that he himself will eventually succumb. In the '50s Winchell gets trounced by television while archrival Ed Sullivan becomes an unlikely Sunday-night institution. A scrappy booster of F.D.R.'s, Winchell gets flummoxed and outfoxed by Roy Cohn and the red- baiters. An anomaly, Winchell throws in his famous fedora and moves to a resentful retirement in Arizona. Herr...
...Iowa woman bravely tells her tale of sexual assault in the Des Moines Register. But is it acceptable for newspapers and TV routinely to put victims in the spotlight...
...Hold it! Cut!" bellows the ringmaster. "That's not what I mean. We need the Greatest Show on Earth! Lights! Camera! Circus!" A bright spotlight shines on a bejeweled woman riding an Asian elephant, who leads a circus parade with all the trappings: clowns on unicycles, clowns on stilts, 20 women and 20 men dressed in antebellum costumes, more elephants, acrobats, a tableau wagon pulled by horses. The grandest entrance is saved for the platinum-haired animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams, who bounds into the arena astride a prancing white horse...
Perhaps Drury's humble attitude is driven by the fact that his accomplishments have been a bit overshadowed by his younger brother's achievements. Twelve-year-old Chris hit the national spotlight last year after pitching the Trumbull Little League team to the world championship...
...what's the problem? In a party that has made social welfare programs the bulwark of its agenda, Jackson's insistent criticism of Reagan's failure to promote social justice should be put under the spotlight, not hidden under a bushel...