Word: limelight
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...Ruby hosts precinct night for the Dallas police force. The night marks Ruby's big debut, also--he finally gets his big break with the bosses. His challenge is to use his drug running links to free Santos Alienate (Marc Lawrence), their man in Havana, catapults Ruby into the limelight and allows him to play with the big boys at a mob gathering in Las Vegas. Soon, However, the bar owner finds himself embroiled in events that are beyond his understanding and control...
...business of buying on credit first captured the national limelight in 1938 when oil companies' customers created accounts to simplify transactions...
...million baby boomers continue to determine America's musical preferences. And what America currently prefers is country. Brooks now outsells Michael Jackson and Guns 'N Roses, country radio is trumping Top 40, and Nashville is churning out new stars so fast that Randy Travis' six years in the limelight qualify him as an elder statesman...
...plunged into a lucrative round of lectures and public appearances. Some psychologists with experience in debriefing former hostages are concerned that Sutherland, who twice attempted suicide while in captivity, has not allowed himself enough time to recover from his ordeal. But the former university professor seems to relish the limelight, particularly the standing ovations...
Giandomenico Picco would have been justified if he had tried to grab some of the limelight that fell on Terry Anderson and his fellow liberated hostages as they emerged into freedom. Instead, the tall, dapper mediator stood in the background, saying nothing about the key role he had played in securing the captives' release. As the point man of U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar's seven-month campaign to resolve the hostage crisis, Picco had engaged in a series of daunting covert missions to Shi'ite strongholds in Lebanon to bargain with the captors. At times he disappeared...