Word: limelight
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...Rollins said. “He gives you a lot of confidence—saying things like, ‘Come on, shoot over me, you know you can make it’.”But the majority of the male scout team has not achieved the same limelight and exposure Puchtel experienced last year. They are former high-school or JV players simply looking for a competitive outlet. “I was probably watching [Puchtel] in his games last year,” Ahmed said. “But I didn’t even know...
...shells. Nicholas buries his head between his knees; and Suzy, interviewed on the lawn of her father's 4,000-acre estate in Scotland, is so uncommunicative that the camera moves away from her to see her pet retriever fetch a dead rabbit. Even Tony, who usually loves the limelight, sounds curt and ungiving...
...Despite Edwards and Puchtel’s lack of PT on the pitch, Puchtel can still ball on the hardwood. For now, this is the only outlet for his competitive drive, and the only opportunity to somehow remember the limelight of yesteryear...
...that's important to Grisham. He's a humble man. He has fierce political convictions--he's currently raising money for Democratic Senate candidate James Webb--but he shuns the limelight. He keeps his wife and two children out of the media. "They hear some crap every now and then," he says. "But I told them years ago, I said, Look, you can't change your name, and I'm not going to stop writing books. The good outweighs the bad. So shut up. Learn to deal with...
...improvisation troupe, On Thin Ice, took acting and writing classes with the New York City comedy group, Upright Citizens Brigade. Each also submitted scripts to the Pudding in previous years but were rejected during the comp process. Despite their newfound success backstage, neither writer has considered stepping into the limelight himself. “I would be in drag, but it’d have to be a loose-fitting dress, because there’s no hiding the bulge. It’d just be unbelievable,” Kollmer said. “I don?...