Word: limelight
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Although he is not altogether comfortable in the sudden glare of the limelight, Skutnik admits that fame has begun to grow on him. His wife says that he might even feel a twinge of regret when it passes. "When things started to calm down a few days ago, he said to me, sort of half joking: 'Gee, they've forgotten me already...
...even if they do make it into the limelight, the task is by no means easy. Jim Craig, whose Olympian goaltending needs little introduction, spent much of last year off the ice and in a dispute with his employers, the Boston Bruins. This year, sans dispute. Craig is sidelined with a broken leg. But then, no one ever said pro hockey was a cushy line of business.For JIM CRAIG playing the pros hasn't been pure pleasure...
Buddy, the other cook, came from a locale far less revolutionary--Somerville, Mass. He was a local boy who knew when to stay quiet and let his co-worker have the limelight of other people's curiosity...
Consumer activists are pursuing another avenue of recourse besides the courts. Adam Levin, director of the New Jersey commission on consumer affairs, says that "the limelight has shifted from the Federal Government to the states." His state, which has 78 local consumer agencies, is among the most consumer-oriented, and the legislature has recently passed a bill limiting excessive medical fees. In New York, state funds were used to replace those cut from the federal Energy Department budget that pay for consumer advocates at utility hearings. The Wisconsin legislature set up a private citizen's utility board to protect...
...Kinks are perhaps most surprising in their longevity. Any band must surmount numerous pressures to last as long as these three have, but only the Kinks have done so in the face of wavering and often scarce popularity. The Stones and the Who have remained in the limelight throughout their careers, but the Kinks, under the direction of lead-singer/songwriter Raymond Douglas Davies, remained during the late '60s and early '70s oddities in the eyes of the rock world...