Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While each of these candidates, like Dukakis, have been perceived widely as laughing-stocks after their defeats, they, unlike the Duke, were able to disappear quickly from the public spotlight after going down...
...alluding to the intifada, the Palestinian uprising and the near civilwar between Arab and Jew, between Jew and Jew. An Israeli venture into Lebanon might have taken the spotlight off the impending negotiations for Palestinian elections...
...entered the spotlight with his debut film She's Gotta Have It, questions what the Civil Rights Movement is for Blacks in America today, where few have found an acceptable middle-ground between the dichotomy of Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolent position and the much more aggressive stance of Malcolm...
...Says he: "My priorities are auto insurance and environmental issues and crime." But the issue he is trying to duck may bite him anyway. The National Abortion Rights Action League, scenting a favorable political test, vows to pump as much as $500,000 into campaign ads to keep the spotlight squarely on abortion. Says N.A.R.A.L. executive director Kate Michelman: "The New Jersey gubernatorial race is the first example of what we are going to do around the country...
...picture, produced on a shoestring budget of about $175,000, raised mostly from friends and family, plus an $18,000 grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, made about $8 million at the box office and catapulted Lee out of obscurity and into the spotlight...