Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drawn into the web of splashy criminal trials. Newcomer Wyler is a prosecutor turned defense attorney who lives in a world ethically messier than his predecessor's. Wyler's father took bribes, he himself cuts deals with smarmy tabloid reporters, and he is not above seeking the limelight. There is a becoming earthiness to Wyler that LaPaglia pulls off effortlessly...
After a rambling monologue of an infomercial by Ross Perot, a sad portrait of a man excluded from the limelight and desperately trying to claw his way back in, the debate began. The air was thick with anticipation: Would the hatchet man return? Would Bob Dole finally go for the jugular, as we suspect he has wanted to all along...
...Orlando, Celebration is the name of a large-scale housing development which Disney built and will manage. The town was especially designed to facilitate community gatherings and neighborly interaction. Houses have front porches, picket fences and other amenities often overlooked in modern construction. Years before "family values" hit the limelight of the political scene, Disney had already begun planning this $2.5 billion project to bring the neighborhood of "Father Knows Best" and "Leave It to Beaver" to some 20,000 residents of the 1990s. "Family" issues are selling well in the political marketplace, and now they are selling...
...contesting their prenuptial agreement--have been setting New York City literary circles abuzz, but Bloom waits until she is more than halfway through this memoir to begin dishing the dirt. For, Roth aside, Bloom, 65, has her own moderately interesting story to tell. She starred in Charlie Chaplin's Limelight, played virtually every major classical role on the stage and has acted opposite--and been romantically involved with--some of the great leading men of her era. About these men, she has much and, in the way of people who cannot translate the lessons of therapy into compelling prose, frustratingly...
...Although we didn't lose any revenues, the move from Thayer several years ago negatively affected the store," Rymer said. "It'll be great to be in the limelight again...