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Word: spotlights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ploy that would have been counter-productive had it meant the abandonment of sponsors and viewers. The entertainment industry has calculated that Americans are willing to watch a lesbian star on television. Most of us recognized this growing tolerance years ago. Why should lesbianism enter the spotlight of our national discourse...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Coming Out to Applause | 4/25/1997 | See Source »

...Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players productions may not be the most popular theater events of the school year, but The Sorcerer certainly deserves its moment in the spotlight. A talented cast, beautiful costumes, a great orchestra and a 100-year-old script that still gets laughs all combine to make a show truly worth anyone's time and money. Perhaps you will resist the charm and musical delight that this season's spellbinding Sorcerer delivers. If you do, fine. You won't be cursed with anything, except maybe regret. But that would be welldeserved...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Falling Under the Spell of 'The Sorcerer' | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

...what if you're the shy type, hesitant to make a blunder with the spotlight fixed firmly on your well-tailored back...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Male Dancers | 4/19/1997 | See Source »

Modesty seems to be a common trait among male dancers--a tendency to spin from spotlight to shadow in seconds...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Male Dancers | 4/19/1997 | See Source »

Four numbers spotlight other band members in hard-line bluegrass, while the star saws away eloquently on her violin. But there's plenty for fans of Krauss's vocal virtuosity. Mark Simos' Find My Way Back to My Heart (whose melody echoes Paul McCartney's I've Just Seen a Face) is a lesson in hard-earned self-reliance; Happiness (lyric by Michael McDonald) has the ethereal Eire sound of Enya. The anthemic finale, There Is a Reason, begins in a string-quartet drone and escalates to a wilderness cry for salvation. These are songs in the past tense--love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: PURE COUNTRY | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

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