Word: limelighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...characteristic of Treasury Secretary Robert Bernard Anderson to keep out of the limelight last week when the Administration and the Democratic congressional leadership sealed their agreement to 1) oppose any tax cuts, 2) go along together on a bill that simply extends for one year the taxes now set for reduction at month's end. But both White House and Capitol Hill knew that Bob Anderson was principally responsible for one of the brightest tactical maneuvers of the Eisenhower Administration-a maneuver that had checked Democratic passions for tax cuts, held back such powerful and restive Republicans as Vice...
...Goldwyn Jr., 31, son of Old Guard Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn, 73, has independently produced Man with the Gun, The Shark fighters, and the soon-to-be-released The Proud Rebel. ¶ Charles Chaplin Jr., 32, and his nine-months-younger brother Sydney appeared with their father in Limelight, have duckwalked away on their own: Sydney plays opposite Judy Holliday in Broadway's Bells Are Ringing; Charles Jr. is a suspicious cop in MGM's High School Confidential. Also in H. S. Confidential: John Barrymore...
...visiting females. A Yugoslav beauty challenged Cannes Visitor Jayne Mansfield to a boom-or-bust tape-measure duel. Two Norwegian models, coyly heeding the open-fronted tradition begun by the late Starlet Simone Silva four years ago, consented to some slightly untrammeled poses for photographers. Bulging into the limelight in a different way, a well-turned bevy of cinema quail (Italy's sunbrowned Sophia Loren, Russia's Tatiana Samoilova, Hollywood's Mitzi Gaynor and Russia's Lino Yudina) stood shoulder to shoulder in a wary display of international solidarity...
Vulnerable Spot. Then something went agley. Dody began basking in her new limelight-and looking as if she expected her laughs. She also started irritating Paar, who has a temperament as tender as a tenor's. She complained on the air that Jack wouldn't let her do the song-and-dance turns she wanted to. Once she pointed to the red light signaling silence for a commercial on Paar's desk and chirped: "Oh, I'm not supposed to talk when that's on, am I?" (Retorted Jack: "Dody, you know I told...
...equal slice of Kay Kendall, Gregory Peck, Tennessee Williams and a host of other gold-plated names? For new light on the vast organization that collects these tidy percentages, keeps itself in the dark as much as it keeps its clients in the limelight, and controls much of what the U.S. sees in movies and TV, see BUSINESS, 10% of Everything...