Word: limelighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Russian-born Simon Barere made his U.S. debut in 1936, he was hailed as "a pianist of the first rank." He had everything-thunder, poetry, brilliance and dazzling speed. But somehow Simon Barere, a man with little flair for the limelight, failed to catch the fancy of the crowds...
Three-Ringed Brownstone. Barbara's joint fear of and attraction to the limelight is a legitimate inheritance. For a generation before she entered the theater, her father Norman had rumbled and roared like an earthquake in the foundations of show business, making plans, productions, money, noise, friends and enemies on a gargantuan scale. The example of his unbridled imagination and breezy pressagentry taught Barbara early in life that the theater could be both sheen and shoddy...
...scientific paper by Thibaud reporting a discovery concerning atomic nuclei was submitted to the Academy of Science, observers considered it more than a coincidence that two bright students of Joliot-Curie should immediately produce papers reporting similar findings. Their papers, forwarded to the academy by Joliot-Curie, switched the limelight from Thibaud, who had been getting a big play in the non-Communist press...
Having been in the limelight herself for several years, Sharman Douglas, 22, daughter of the former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was off to pound a $125-a-week Hollywood typewriter and turn the beam on someone else. The job: helping RKO publicize Cinemactress Jean Simmons...
...foreign front, the English share the limelight with the French, while the Italian offerings hang in gamely...