Word: limelight
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...producers, vinyl culture and spinning records as performance have become commonplace, thanks to mass marketing and overall cool factor. The downer this time is that, unlike thrilling chart-toppers like “Firestarter” and “Setting Sun,” the music in the limelight is barely deserving of notice. Most popular are formulaic, cheap-rush trance that any talentless hack with a computer can cough out, and its dry counterpart “progressive” house, the style championed by purists like John Digweed...
Council candidate E. Denise Simmons shied away from the limelight, choosing to stay with her mother in a nursing home for most of the night...
...being influential is usually at the cost of anonymity. Not so for New Order, who combatted fame by rarely releasing images of band members and deliberately keeping a healthy distance from the limelight. Scanning their discography, one is struck by the minimalism and blankness of the titles: Ceremony, Substance 1987, Movement, Brotherhood, Republic. Their Best Of album simply has a blue question mark on the cover. For these reasons people still ask, “Who sings that?” when Bizarre Love Triangle’s bassline bounces out of a stereo or when Sumner croons...
...final clubs is something that some clubs have discussed in previous years. The idea was rekindled for RUS after the Fly Club’s ability to receive some tax-deductible donations was affirmed by the City of Cambridge earlier this fall, and the club was hurtled into the limelight...
...quarterbacked the 1999 squad to 640 yards of total offense en route to a record-setting 63-21 win over Dartmouth. I remember when Neil Rose lit up the Brown secondary last year for a school-record 436 passing yards. I remember how Carl Morris first burst into the limelight in that same game, catching 10 of Rose’s passes for 220 yards and two touchdowns...