Word: limelight
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Kuehl first stepped into the limelight as a sitcom star, playing the teenage Zelda Gilroy on "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," in the late 50s and early 60s. During her stint on "Dobie Gillis," she also first stepped into an identity as lesbian, which she said was both freeing and fatal to her television career...
...quite the most famous of the American Pop artists. That honor belonged to Andy Warhol, who made it somewhat dubious. Lichtenstein was always lower-key as a person, reserved, wryly courteous and not a great believer in the virtues of publicity. He neither sought nor avoided the limelight...
...TIME highlighted some of the biomedical advances of the late 20th century. This 1997 issue celebrates men and women who have contributed to those advances. Not all of the assemblage of healers presented here are doctors. Nurses, technical personnel and seekers of botanical remedies have also found the limelight. So has one committed American woman who donated her bone marrow to a desperately sick person whom she had never met. When she was asked what moved her to come forward, and how she could tolerate the weeks of soreness and fatigue that follow the marrow harvesting, her reply was unassuming...
What a difference a decade makes. Mediagenic writers like Jay McInerney and Tama Janowitz once held the limelight with modish novels about fast life in the 1980s. But those authors have now faded into their own material, symbols of the superficialities they exploited in their fiction...
Ironically, Lake might have been better suited to the CIA post than he was to the NSC. He is secretive by nature and never sought the limelight; a bulletin board used to hang in the White House situation room with all the press photos that described him as an "unidentified staffer." While at the White House, he preferred shooting pool with Secret Service agents to hitting the Georgetown cocktail circuit. But Lake has not been shy about asking the CIA to undertake covert operations. During the first four years of the Administration he backed sensitive CIA operations...