Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MEET CHELSEA CLINTON. She's cute--in that awkward 12-year-old way. But the emphasis is on awkward. Her dresses don't fit her quite right. She inherited her father's hair. She looks uncomfortable in the limelight...
Part of bringing the department away from the margins involves bringing it into the limelight. And gates brought national attention to Afro-Am this semester with the arrival of filmmaker Spike...
Gates says Lee's presence served a definite purpose, bringing Harvard's Afro-Am program into the national limelight as well as the center of campus discussion...
...aggressive. She's bossy, insists on being in control, doesn't take criticism well. She's a workaholic who has sacrificed her friends and her family for her job. She has a big ego. She's too individualistic; no, she's just a staff officer. She likes the limelight. She loves it, it's gone to her head: "Watch her on TV. She's reveling in it." She wants power and more power: "There's no limit to her aspirations...
There is some truth to all of the above. Actually, a great deal of truth. She does relish the power, the limelight, the prominence. "Frankly, I would prefer a more private life," she says, but no one believes her, not even her husband. "For her, this is work that has to be done and that has priority over everything else," he says. Later on she is a little more honest: "I can imagine myself going back to teaching, but I don't know if I'd be able...