Word: limelight
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Still, Lowe says his selection was a confidence builder. “This kind of thing was the best thing that could have happened,” he says. “I love attention and the limelight...
...since You Are Not Alone, in 1995. He has allowed surgeons to ravage his face until he resembles Peter Pan less than the Phantom of the Opera. He is now famous primarily for being notorious. Jackson is not the only celebrity who has been hypnotized by the limelight, who pampered his quirks instead of developing his work, who remained addicted to the high life long after the big money ebbed. (Prosecutors, angling for access to his financial statements, assert that he is near bankruptcy.) But it can be said that Jackson has pursued his dreams--like creating his own theme...
Yesterday, while Corriero might have stepped up into the limelight with her two goals, Vaillancourt was a constant force on the overwhelming Harvard power play and notched an assist...
...soothingly repetitive acoustic guitar licks and his wispy vocals affirm the record’s Iron & Wine identity. Woman King is laced with elegant subtlety, clever word play, powerful emotion and all the other goodies that pulled Beam so quickly from his basement recording studio into the indie limelight. The solidly composed title track, “Woman King,” abounds with precise rhythms and haunting poetry. In the singular lament, “My Lady’s House,” Beam taps into emotional wavelengths à la Nick Drake (one of his self-confessed...
...groups, but also to make their presence felt in today’s predominantly male-led campus groups. Hopefully, we won’t have to wait for a provocative, off-the-cuff remark by a university president to bring issues facing undergraduate women leaders into the limelight...