Word: limelight
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...detailed map of the international landscape of Chinese heterodoxies, an encyclopedic Who's Who of troublemakers that is engagingly anecdotal, often surprising and deeply insightful. Readers already acquainted with China's political topography will find fresh profiles of familiar figures who are often lost in the glaring limelight that follows them?Wei, Wang Dan, Dai Qing, Fang Lizhi and Liu Binyan. But Buruma also introduces characters less well-known in the English-speaking world...
...course, the living wage has not been abandoned by the living wage campaign, and when the HCECP releases its report in late December the proposal of a wage floor will certainly return to the limelight. But the change in tone is visibly evident from the muted participation in the debate over the living wage, which by and large seems to have devolved into an occasional shouting match between PSLM and the Harvard Objectivist Club. A message board created a week ago by the HCECP, intended to allow public comment and discussion of wage issues, contains only four messages...
Until now, Hough's low-key, my-way approach had largely kept him out of the limelight in the U.S.--he is much better known in his native England--but American audiences were starting to catch up with him even before the MacArthur-related publicity afterburner kicked in. His Rachmaninoff performance at Lincoln Center has been rescheduled for Jan. 8, and one of his songs (he composes too) will be premiered at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday...
...from a sacred text, he radiates with every self-adoring geture an actor's awareness of the lens... greater than all of (his liabilities in evading his pursuers), to my jaded eye, is his barely containable male vanity, his appetite for self-drama and his closet passion for the limelight." Faux Bin Ladens, particularly those born outside of the privileges and entitlements the real one inherited, may find that a tough act to mimic...
It’s the rare fair-to-middling band that survives a jolt into the limelight. Will Alien Ant Farm be among the lucky ones? I’ve certainly been surprised before (Sugar Ray?), but with a name like Alien Ant Farm? Smells like Novelty...