Word: limelight
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...executive masters degree in business administration from Peking University and completes a law degree this month, says he's accustomed to international competition and knows how to adjust his game. "To improve, you must give up some of your old habits," Li says. By stepping out of the limelight, the former Olympian figures he can help the team...
...Benedict's summation that turned the tide. A tweedy, silver-haired George Plimpton type who shuns the limelight, Benedict was soft-spoken for most of the trial. (At one point a member of the jury even had to ask him to speak up.) But his closing argument was a tour de force. Orchestrating a barrage of tapes, photographs and flashing transcripts, Benedict wove dozens of disparate facts into a simple scenario as chilling as any thriller: Skakel, jealous because Moxley flirted with Tommy, beat her to death in a drunken rage, masturbated over her body, then crept back...
...watershed study, which sustained criticism from civil rights activists because they felt it blamed blacks themselves for black poverty, became known as the “Moynihan Report” and threw the relatively unknown government official into the limelight for the first time...
...star-obsessed culture, Rowley is a healthy reminder that it's often people who shun the limelight--strong-willed people with more guts than glamour--who force themselves to step up and speak out when everyone else is keeping quiet. She dresses simply and wears large spectacles that have a habit of sliding down her nose. She takes her lunch to work every day and often arrives long before any of her co-workers. "She goes the extra mile on everything," says Larry Brubaker, a retired agent and former colleague. "Coleen always looks stressed. She is very high energy...
...when the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie was preparing its pre-Broadway run last year in La Jolla, Calif. But the leading lady got dumped, and Foster, at the last minute, was thrust into the role. Last week the show opened on Broadway, and Foster was basking in the limelight. As the small-town girl who comes to New York City in the 1920s, she's got the full package: girlish gawkiness and Broadway brass, the legs and the lungs. Foster is a big reason the show is just about the cutest thing to hit Broadway since Annie's dimples, with...