Word: limelight
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...Vidal has left that secluded luxury to begin, just a few days shy of his 75th birthday, another golden period in the limelight, making a publicity tour for The Golden Age. A revival of The Best Man, his hit 1960 play about infighting at a national political convention, has just opened on Broadway. And despite Vidal's deeply held atheism, there must be a God, or god, showering his current visibility with reflected glory. A distant cousin (fifth, Vidal thinks) is the Democratic nominee for President. During the party's August convention in Los Angeles, the author told reporters...
...Gore family's links with Occidental date back to the vice president's father's close relationship with Armand Hammer, the oil baron who created Occidental and who often found himself in the limelight of controversy because of his extensive investments in the old Soviet Union. When J. Edgar Hoover had accused Hammer of being a communist agent in 1962, Senator Gore defended him on the Senate floor, and after performing other favors for the company over the years, Gore Senior, after losing his Senate seat in 1970, took a job with an Occidental subsidiary for an annual salary...
...Vidal has left that secluded luxury to begin, just a few days shy of his 75th birthday, another golden period in the limelight, making a publicity tour for "The Golden Age." A revival of "The Best Man," his hit 1960 play about infighting at a national political convention, has just opened on Broadway. And despite Vidal's deeply held atheism, there must be a God, or god, showering his current visibility with reflected glory. A distant cousin (fifth, Vidal thinks) is the Democratic nominee for President. During the party's August convention in Los Angeles, the author told reporters...
Triple gold medalist Fu Mingxia doesn't expect anyone to remember her. Sure, China's mop-haired diving diva was the youngest gold medalist in Barcelona, at 13, and a double winner in Atlanta. But when she ducked out of the limelight at 18, her whispery voice citing mental exhaustion, the former child prodigy figured her glory days were done. Even today as she trains for Sydney, Fu downplays her talents. "I'm old and a little fat now," jokes the 22-year-old. "I'm yesterday's news...
DIED. ANTHONY ("Tony Ducks") CORALLO, 87, last of the old-time Mafia dons; in prison while serving a 100-year sentence for racketeering; in Springfield, Mo. Corallo, former boss of the Lucchese family, was known as Tony Ducks for ducking subpoenas; he also ducked the limelight. Passionate about secrecy, he sat impassive in court, "like one of these big stone idols" said a prosecutor, as tapes played his rare slipup: a bugged 1982 talk with his driver on Mob control of New York City's construction industry...