Word: spotlights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are practical reasons that such expectations are a dangerous risk. Expecting moral perfectionism from our public officials has a numbing effect on our elective politics. Talented, committed people are increasingly reluctant to seek office because they do not want to subject themselves to the media spotlight. Many incumbents have also been saying they've had enough. And the dwindling pool of candidates only decrease the chances that our elected officials will have integrity...
Faced with the gathering storm, the leadership of the N.R.A. is trying to shift the spotlight back to the larger problem of crime. "The whole debate over gun control is a public fraud in terms of doing anything in the world that affects violent criminals," says N.R.A. executive vice president Wayne LaPierre. "What's missing from this whole debate is what we all know works: confronting violent criminals and taking them off the street. That's what politicians don't have the will to do, but that's what the American public is demanding...
...most significant innovation comes in Rose's Turn, an outpouring of Rose's bitter longing for the spotlight. Where Daly played the scene in a fury, Midler gradually enters into the fantasy and smiles, flaunts her bosom, coyly sells herself to an imaginary audience. At the end, she and her daughter reach a reconciliation more convincing and complete than in most interpretations...
...about to be outpaced, then pulled together the results of his group's ongoing research, which will be published in the journal on Dec. 17. Acting as race stewards, the editors of Cell decided to lift the embargo on the Vogelstein article so that both groups could share the spotlight last week...
...rough-and-tumble, folksy ways had worked well for Johnson in the Senate's closed and clubby atmosphere and made him respected and feared among the Capitol's insiders. But his style often raised ridicule and suspicion in the national spotlight where he had to dwell as President. Life-and-death issues like the cold war and Vietnam required, more than anything, calm, study and courage -- not theatrics...