Word: limelight
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...candidates, in fact, could have learned a lesson or two from the old pro, Mikhail Gorbachev. Even though he is not running for anything, the Soviet President managed to capture the limelight during a visit to Kazakhstan last week, where he donned a sporty cap to pose for cameras in a wheat field. Though Gorbachev has made fresh peace with Yeltsin, he has refused to endorse any candidate in the race...
...last season the co-captain played second singles behind deLone. In her four years as a varsity tennis player for the Crimson, Henikoff never assumed her position in the limelight of Harvard tennis...
While working with divestment and other issues since the spring of last year on the Undergraduate Council and as the head of Harvard Students for Silber, Gallagher has thrust himself into the limelight, although often unintentionally...
While Sonia refuses to step into the limelight, what about the rest of the family? The nearest heirs are her two children. Like his father at the same age, Rahul, 20, a Harvard undergraduate, shows no interest in politics, preferring photography and target shooting. He is the quieter, more introverted of the two children...
...general is battling powerful forces here, for he has been cast as a savior by a public that longs for shiny heroes. "It's sort of overwhelming," he says, blinking in the limelight. "I didn't have a sense of how completely spontaneous it would be." His incandescent televised briefing after the liberation of Kuwait sent a powerful message: here at last was a leader who was blunt, not glib; passionate, not packaged, with the carriage of a man of courage and principle. Even then, it was hard to imagine that he would willingly trade the high challenges...