Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kennedy's Children, set in 1974, deals with five survivors of the excesses of the Sixties, who drown their sorrows as they reminisce on a decade gone bad. Each character, illuminated in turn by a spotlight, speaks in a series of monologues. They never interact; only one character ever even moves from his chair. In the hands of a talented actor, this format is a challenge to work with pacing and dynamics to keep the audience's attention. Unfortunately, not all the actors are up to the challenge, and the production soon loses its novelty and goes flat...
...enough, however, just to shine the spotlight on Harvard. Although obstruction of stalking cases may not always get the press coverage that Harvard's did, that does not mean it doesn't happen elsewhere...
Still, the Kennedy-Romney race held the evening's spotlight...
Some of Reeves' supporters contend the media places an intense spotlight on minority leaders that white politicians simply...
Often the winner of a Nobel Prize is an obscure academic, noticed by few in his community until he is thrust into the spotlight. But when photographs of John Nash appeared in the press last week, a common reaction in and around Princeton, New Jersey, was a shock of recognition: "Oh, my gosh, it's him!" Nash, who shared the Economics Prize with John Harsanyi of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and Reinhard Selten of the University of Bonn, is a familiar eccentric in the university town -- a quiet, detached man who frequently spends...