Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Plenty has changed in the course of this pundit-shaming year, and fast. And now that almost everyone's ready for a breath of fresh, Arkansasan air, George Bush has tottered out of the limelight. He's been on a fishing trip in Florida for a while, and his friends are saying that he just isn't fishing like he used...
...only disasters in the cast are Michael L. Johnson as Eilif Stockmann, who tries to enlarge his tiny piece by hamming it, and the townspeople, who lose all discipline in their rush to make the most of their five minutes in the limelight...
Thomas R. Mathews, who said he worked behind the scenes of the Kennedy administration to help establish the Peace Corps, praised the virtues of getting things done out of the limelight. Mathews will head a study group on grass roots organizations...
...even more significant on a personal level. Clinton's father died three months before he was born. Gore's father, Albert Sr., 84, a liberal three-term former Senator from Tennessee who once harbored his own presidential ambitions, is still eagerly appearing onstage with his son, basking in the limelight. So too was Gore born into privilege, while ! Clinton had to achieve it through the sterling academic record that led to his Rhodes scholarship. These divergent life experiences are important because they are the source of so much talk between the two couples...
...shimmering summer's day was just beginning its slow fade into dusk as the eight-bus caravan pulled into Manchester for a carefully orchestrated "unscheduled" stop. The local Democrats had done their part -- a crowd of nearly 1,000 had been waiting for several hours to gambol in the limelight. Gore, fast becoming the Ed McMahon of political warm-up acts, gave his patter- perfect introduction, complete with the mawkish reminder that Clinton's father died three months before Clinton was born. Then Clinton clambered up onto the small outdoor podium for a quick rendition of his stump speech. Knowing...