Word: limelight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Busy organizing students for the University-Lutheran (Uni-Lu) Homeless Shelter's holiday events, the Uni-Lu volunteer director says he would rather stay out of the limelight. But fate, and The Crimson, prevailed...
Kuehl first stepped into the limelight as a sitcom star, playing the teenage Zelda Gilroy on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," in the late 50s and early 60s. During her stint on "Dobie Gillis," she also first stepped into an identity as lesbian, which she said was both freeing and fatal to her television career...
Launching the Million Woman March of African Americans in Philadelphia with her familiar clenched-fist salute, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was, as usual, center stage on her recent visit to the U.S. But back home last week, the ex-wife of South Africa's President faced a less flattering limelight. It was her turn to go before the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on human-rights violations during the apartheid era, and the testimony there further clouded the reputation of the woman once called Mother of the Nation...
...quite the most famous of the American Pop artists. That honor belonged to Andy Warhol, who made it somewhat dubious. Lichtenstein was always lower-key as a person, reserved, wryly courteous and not a great believer in the virtues of publicity. He neither sought nor avoided the limelight...
...TIME highlighted some of the biomedical advances of the late 20th century. This 1997 issue celebrates men and women who have contributed to those advances. Not all of the assemblage of healers presented here are doctors. Nurses, technical personnel and seekers of botanical remedies have also found the limelight. So has one committed American woman who donated her bone marrow to a desperately sick person whom she had never met. When she was asked what moved her to come forward, and how she could tolerate the weeks of soreness and fatigue that follow the marrow harvesting, her reply was unassuming...