Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Sonia refuses to step into the limelight, what about the rest of the family? The nearest heirs are her two children. Like his father at the same age, Rahul, 20, a Harvard undergraduate, shows no interest in politics, preferring photography and target shooting. He is the quieter, more introverted of the two children...
...general is battling powerful forces here, for he has been cast as a savior by a public that longs for shiny heroes. "It's sort of overwhelming," he says, blinking in the limelight. "I didn't have a sense of how completely spontaneous it would be." His incandescent televised briefing after the liberation of Kuwait sent a powerful message: here at last was a leader who was blunt, not glib; passionate, not packaged, with the carriage of a man of courage and principle. Even then, it was hard to imagine that he would willingly trade the high challenges...
Others, however, are less charitable in assessing her motivations. "I know she likes being in the limelight," says Nigel W. Jones '91, a Kirkland resident. "I know she wants people writing about her and that's why she hung the flag...
...Berlin courtroom, Tisch, who once reveled in the limelight alongside East German head of state Erich Honecker, spoke in a barely audible voice and stared straight ahead with rheumy, vacant eyes. Defense attorneys said he had suffered a stroke, but the judge ruled that the trial should...
With principals and teachers pushing parents' concerns out of the limelight, the conclusion is as plain as graffiti on playground equipment. The educational establishment in Chicago does not want reform; it wants to protect its budget and its constituents' job security...