Word: limelight
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Historically, some of the nation’s most important education reforms have emerged from Harvard’s own bully pulpit. Soft-spoken Rudenstine, more suited to the shadows than the limelight, leaves Harvard’s podium considerably diminished...
Both Jackson and Sharpton pay lip service to the idea of broadening black leadership, but their actions contradict their words. Sharpton is convinced that Jackson cut short his sabbatical simply because he could not bear to be out of the limelight. Sharpton is no less eager for publicity. Their showdown promises to generate endless gossip and reams of breathless coverage. But in the end, it's just a sideshow. Given the growing diversity and power of the black community, it may no longer need an HNIC...
Laura Nyro, just 19 and wearing a black gown with an angel's wing on her shoulder, got booed off the stage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. That may help explain why, for the rest of her career, this rock innovator shied away from the limelight, writing songs that others turned into hits (Stoned Soul Picnic for the 5th Dimension; And When I Die for Blood, Sweat and Tears; Stoney End for Barbra Streisand). The crowd at that landmark Monterey festival was more into high-energy rockers like Janis Joplin, for whom performing was as intoxicating as the heroin...
...there, he once told TIME. And he resented that Yale didn't give his father (class of '48) an honorary degree until 1991. But now that W is President--and daughter Barbara is a freshman--it seems he is ready to make peace with Yale. And share the Blue limelight with the former First Lady...
...bastard son of Gertrude, and is jealous of his half-brother’s position of power and favor in the family. His ultimate goal is to see Hamlet into the throne so that he can become Hamlet’s principal advisor, and finally ascend into the limelight. The story proceeds from there...