Word: limelight
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...main-stream party machine. Hanson came to fame in 1996 with her maiden speech in the House of Representatives, shattering the "political correctness" consensus of the last decade and rocketing herself to political infamy. She then went on to the form the (somewhat ironically titled) One Nation Party. The limelight began to fade for Hanson by 1999 when One Nation was not even One Party. The party and the dream (or nightmare) had ended...
...Princeton, with its first win in team competition over Harvard since 1994, stole the limelight and stopped the Crimson in Saturday's semifinal...
...recently, thanks to the hoopla surrounding presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan's threatened defection from the GOP, the Reform Party has made it back into the limelight. But he's not the only one who might seek the Reform Party nomination. Party members are openly wooing other illustrious pseudo-celebrities include former Connecticut governor and political maverick Lowell P. Weicker Jr. and real estate mogul Donald "The Donald" Trump. Led by Minnesota governor and former pro-wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura the House that Ross Built might be making some headway after...
...party aspires to one day leave the fringe in the cause of reform, it is a poison pill. Buchanan is no reformer; he is a radical by convenience and a scavenger by nature. Why would he change the system that has paid him the salary of the limelight ? on TV and in bookstores ? as a rabble-rouser for hire? Besides, times are too good for an agrarian uprising anyway; those who are simply disenchanted with the system far outnumber those who truly despise it. Buchanan claims to want to change what government does; his call to arms is that...
With Harvard's offensive line returning only one starter from last year's squad, offensive tackle Lane Arnold has quickly been thrust into the limelight. Arnold enters tomorrow's season opener as the top back-up at the left tackle spot, where sophomore Steve Collins will start...