Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1950s, Luce spent much of his time in Rome with his wife Clare, who had been appointed Ambassador to Italy by President Eisenhower in 1953. The Italian government gave him an honorary rank, as the ambassador's consort, immediately behind ministers plenipotentiary. But Luce kept discreetly out of the limelight, proudly leaving it to Clare. He studied Italian, roamed through Rome (he liked to show visitors the zoo, where he usually fed the animals), and set up a separate office of his own overlooking the Borghese Gardens. From there, he sent a steady flow of memos and suggestions back...
...late-blooming life of the party (or what is left of it loyal to Mao), Chiang Ching has been variously explained as the chief inventor of the Cultural Revolution, the guiding force behind Mao, a vindictive Dragon Lady out for personal revenge, and a frustrated starlet seeking the limelight. Though she and Mao are rarely seen together, they dwell in apparent harmony in a villa on a spoon-shaped peninsula in Peking's South Lake...
Nkrumah's years of misrule now fully exposed by Ghana's well-entrenched new military government, many Guinean officials consider his presence a distinct liability. As a result, he has been elbowed out of the political limelight; he is now kept under virtual house arrest in his high-walled villa. Nearly a dozen of his bodyguards have deserted and crossed the border to Sierra Leone to start a new life. His Egyptian wife Fathia, whom he shelved years ago for more comely playmates, has taken refuge in Cairo, refuses to rejoin him or even to allow his three...
Fallen Angel. Neither loot nor limelight has ever seduced Scofield. The most introverted of English actors, he avoids public places, parties and the press. Between performances, he commutes by train to his cottage 50 miles into rustic Sussex, lives "a complete family life" with his wife, Actress Joy Parker, their two children, some horses and dogs. "It sounds funny for an actor to say it," he says, "but I haven't any desire for the center of the stage...
Micheletti broke into the limelight six minutes later on the goal that gave Harvard the lead for good. The sophomore defenseman, filling in for the injured Charlie Scammon, carried the puck with a burst of speed into the RPI zone and dropped a pass for George Murphy. The second-line winger's shot rebounded off Nichol's stick to Ben Smith, who lit the lamp from five feet...