Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alexander, as skilled and slick a pol as ever pretended not to be one, the week finally gave him his spotlight. He woke up Tuesday morning with all sorts of advantages: he was still an unknown, so his negative ratings were low in a field where everyone else's were rising. He was so cash strapped he could barely afford negative ads, which allowed him to take credit for not running any. The morning after Iowa he spent on a conference call with more than 200 rainmakers, winning their promise to raise at least $5,000 each by week...
Buchanan called himself the vanguard leader of "new conservativism" in the Republican Party. His ideas are so cogent, he said, that the other Republican candidates are stealing them to steal the spotlight and voters...
...many political predecessors done when their own suspicion rapidly flowed into guilt? They resigned. Political officials who have found themselves in a quagmire similar to that of Mrs. Clinton got out of office. Gary Hart, Zoe Baird, Lani Guinier--a diverse handful of politicians who withdrew from the spotlight in which they were being stripped of their political integrity. Our political system makes it too ugly for them to suck it up and stick it out. They need to get out quickly and unscathed. For the politicians who came before Mrs. Clinton, exit was the most common form of alleviating...
...messy, disappointing, and confusing, but it can also be exciting, rewarding, and uplifting. The problem is that LaChiusa doesn't quite know how to bring originality to the timeworn themes of love and sex. And whoever thought up the idea of shining an extraordinarily bright and unbelievably unflattering yellow spotlight on actors' faces as they are climaxing, sure didn't help...
With time winding down, the injuries seemed to be hounding the Crimson, and it was not until there was 2:55 left when Higdon would step to the spotlight, tying the game at three with his second goal of the night...