Word: limelight
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...celebrity limelight certainly helped four years ago, when Barneys New York partnered with Cameron Silver of the Los Angeles vintage emporium Decades to introduce a limited line of vintage to the sales floor. "There was a spirit in fashion that was very vintage oriented, and it was being validated by people being photographed wearing vintage," says Barneys New York fashion director Julie Gilhart, who now sells the Decades line at trunk shows. "All of a sudden [vintage] was garnering this energy...
...more. He was hailed as a "Picasso who can do anything" (Frankfurt Modern Art Museum director Jean Christophe Ammann) and derided as the "Sylvester Stallone" of painting (TIME critic Robert Hughes). But he conquered the market with price tags of $300,000 and beyond, and captured his share of limelight as well. In the '90s, as painting took a cyclical downturn, Schnabel veered off into filmmaking, and even a one-album gig as a pop singer. His comeback show in Frankfurt, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work since a 1988 exhibit at New York City's Whitney Museum, covers...
Sunday night, Belichick and Fox will take their cues to bow or grimace from the scoreboard. Some flashy player will get the limelight, but the winning coach won't. Field marshals don't go to Disney World. --Reported by Paul Cuadros/Charlotte and Sean Gregory/Foxboro
...what Bratton claims was then Mayor Rudy Giuliani's dislike of his high media profile, Bratton, now 56, went into the private sector, setting up his own security consulting firm, the Bratton Group, and giving speeches around the world, particularly in South America. But he missed being in the limelight in the U.S. and even explored a run for mayor of New York in 2001. Then came the 9/11 attacks, which left him feeling helpless in the private sector and convinced him he should go back into public service--which meant the police force. He lobbied hard...
...fiercest moment comes when he leans over his friend, ailing and bearing the deadly Ring, and declares, "Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can't carry it for you. But I can carry you." The scene has evoked tears from strong men and yanked Astin into the awards limelight. Yet as much as he reveres Jackson, Astin believes the wrong take is in the film."I know the way I delivered the line was so much more powerful than what the audience sees. That was one of the great acting achievements of my life, and I feel only...