Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more important revelations were implicit. After 15 years in the white-hot limelight, Diana's perfect p.r. pitch has become her best weapon. From the melancholy kohl-rimmed eyes to the hesitant body language, from the lack of spite (she'll take "half" the responsibility for the split) to the deference to the Prince ("I await my husband's decision" about a divorce), Diana played her part with great cunning, showing that when she says she won't go easily, she means...
...black community in some way. Robert Fisher, owner of a Woodland Hills, California, consulting firm that specializes in burnishing tarnished images, suggests that a Greta Garbo vanishing act may be appropriate for Simpson at this point: "He needs to stick with his kids and stay out of the limelight. If he's seen taking his kids to Disneyland, or at a black-tie party or having fun somewhere, it's just going to grate on America...
Even while endorsing Coffey, we have to admit that the rest of the vice presidential candidates are a far more impressive bunch than the presidential candidates; we'd almost prefer that the races were switched. Former Treasurer Brian K. Blais '97 has been a steady worker outside the limelight, and Bradford E. Miller '97 (who is a Crimson editor) has pushed for several pieces of pro-student council legislation...
...sold him out, literally, to MGM, and Keaton lost control of his films. It was a crash that led to pained obscurity--as second banana to Jimmy Durante, gag writer for Red Skelton, waxwork to Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd., cracked mirror image to Chaplin in the 1952 Limelight. Keaton died at 70 in 1966. He never got to savor the happy ending that film history had planned: the rediscovery and restoration of his films, the flabbergasted smiles of today's children gazing on the Great Stone Face, the influence his work has on movie comics--as both inspiration...
...legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "His cases showed the country that it was divided on many issues. But he was criticised late in his career of being something of a media hound. And to some extent, he earned that criticism. Toward the end he seemed to be driven by the limelight...