Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quarte," choreographed by Jules Perrot, was originally tailored to showcase the abilities of the 19th century's premiere ballerinas: Marie Taglioni, Carla Grisi, Fanny Cerrito and Lucile Grahn. This epic performance by the four dancers became infamous for its air of heated rivalry, each woman vying for the spotlight and the audience's attention. In this 20th century rendition, four women re-enacted the parts of these famous ballerinas. The Conservatory students amusingly portrayed this onstage tension through exaggerated, flowery arm movements and strained smiles, plastered across the face of each dancer. The underlying competition, acted out by these histrionic...
...Pavarotti. Told with a tinge of sympathy and pity, she traces the last moments of a tenor past his prime, who has constant memory lapses and has to transpose all of his arias down to avoid the dreaded high Cs, yet desperately does not want to leave the public spotlight. Like Bartoli, even Mr. P (as Hoelteroff affectionately calls the Italian tenor) is overshadowed by the more provocative characters surrounding him. Herbert Breslin, Pavarotti's "motor-mouthed, bullet-headed, forever-tan egomaniac" publicist, adds a touch of much needed vulgarity to the usually cordial dialogue. For him, everything the press...
...three. It paid off. Soon after her 10th birthday, they left their jobs in Tampa, Fla.--Camelia worked in a hair salon, Dumitru as a used-car dealer--to follow her to the Houston gym of legendary trainer Bela Karolyi to preside over her vault into the spotlight. In a best-selling autobiography written on the eve of the Atlanta Olympics, Dominique, 14 years old and headed for gold, thanked her parents. "I look in the mirror and see Dominique Moceanu, my parents' daughter," she wrote. "That's good enough...
...Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet by giving several lectures about, and readings from, Opened Ground and Beowulf. Heaney is known for his humorous, warm and gentle spirit, a spirit than infuses even the most violent and political of his poems, and also for his tendency to avoid the "celebrity poet" spotlight. (In fact, he was in the Greek islands when the Nobel Prize announcement was made.) This came across in Heaney's three lectures and three "talking shop" sessions (informal talk-cum-question-and-answer sessions), in which the always-congenial poet delivered a friendly mix of jokes, poems, literary commentary...
...heavy-handed insistence that Microsoft and Netscape divide up the browser market between them. It's almost as if Bill Clinton had decided to introduce evidence of other philandering presidents into an impeachment inquiry -- interesting, perhaps even mitigating, but ultimately irrelevant. Microsoft's attorneys would like to throw the spotlight on equally dubious business practices elsewhere in the software industry, and this is by no means their last attempt. But this smoking gun, at least, is simply blowing smoke...