Word: limelight
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Court TV picked up the Cambridge trial live, bringing the case into the homes of millions of viewers. The network had originally planned to follow the sexual assault case against basketball star Kobe Bryant but an abrupt dismissal of the case brought Pring-Wilson into the national limelight...
Harvard began the season without the two All-Americans lost to graduation—including the collegiate men’s Sailor of the Year—but it hardly left the limelight. In mere months, Devlin and sophomore Clay Johnson took second in the individual ICSA singlehanded national championships, while Tulloch—last year’s collegiate women’s Sailor of the Year—and freshman Kyle Kovacs each finished fourth...
...limelight was no longer on Welch, and he couldn’t have cared less...
...Kennedy, she sure doesn’t adore the limelight...
...deadly civil war in southern Sudan languished out of the limelight for more than two decades. But Harvard’s move to divest from PetroChina grabbed headlines both locally and in far-flung papers—from Singapore’s Straits Times to the Paris-based International Herald Tribune...