Word: limelight
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...even as Krish has breakdanced with a crew in the Square, stolen the limelight at the B.J. show, sparred verbally with Jackie Chan at Cultural Rhythms and reigned over his House as Miss Pfoho, he has found the time to learn more about the person he is becoming...
...book on the stands, Lévy is once again ensconced in unabashed glamour on the Left Bank. He and Dombasle also own a palace in Marrakech, purchased from the actor Alain Delon. Universally known in France as BHL, he is not shy about putting himself in any available limelight, from Vanity Fair and Paris Match to the pop-culture talk show Everybody's Talking About It. "BHL has learned the lessons of Dubya: pile it on from the first day," hissed the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné. "Hit the masses with shock...
...Monica Lewinsky has signed on to emcee Mr. Personality, which premieres next month. The series, on which an attractive young female will be courted by a group of bachelors whose faces are concealed by latex masks, "sounds like good fun," says Lewinsky, who, despite her harsh introduction to the limelight, seems to have developed a craving for it. According to Fox, the guys "must rely strictly on their personalities to captivate" the contestant, although Walt Whitman poetry, expensive cigars and rides on Air Force One are not expressly forbidden...
...occasionally a little worrisome. Tommy Ray Franks is none of those: he is quick, funny, very private, ferociously hardworking and, everyone says, a rare leader of soldiers, particularly enlisted troops. He is also, at least in public, the consummate strong and silent type, the good soldier who shuns the limelight in marked contrast to some of his predecessors at Central Command. All this makes Franks, 57, ideally suited as the go-to general for the second Bush Administration. Retired Admiral Archie Clemins, who commanded the Pacific Fleet when Franks was serving in Korea six years ago, noted that...
...Rogers gave out amazing candy (full-size, full-sugar candy bars! No bite-size Hershey bars here. And no ultra-healthy apples or pears.) Mrs. Rogers tended to the trick-or-treaters, but I have a suspicion that Mister Rogers, while perhaps wary of hijacking the costumed childrens' limelight, was always nearby...