Word: limelighted
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...Statue of Liberty around the globe. "Those well-worn phrases have never lost their potency and charm," insists Malone, though at the time they were first introduced, Jefferson was still miffed that his original text had been edited by the Continental Congress. Jefferson was not even in the limelight. He was poking around Philadelphia, buying a thermometer and seven pairs of ladies' gloves before going home to Monticello. Years later, he said his intention had been "to place before mankind the common sense of the subject." Jefferson, as much as any man of his time, believes Malone, had already focused...
...deprived of the vivid pictures and descriptions of violence and protest which egg them on to protest. Congressional interest will dwindle without such public pressure--to the delight of the Pretoria government. As after the Sharpville and Soweto riots, South Africa is plotting to gain time out of the limelight to lick its wounds and quell internal and external dissent...
When Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies finds the limelight, it's usually the gentle glow of scholarly achievement. For a while last spring, however, the Center found itself the unaccustomed subject of seering international scrutiny...
Often the boss himself will grab the limelight and ham it up. Barry Ross, 43, owner of Houston's Superior Waterbeds, was watching a disk jockey tape a spot for his firm seven years ago when he got frustrated with the hireling's laid-back style. Recalls Ross: "I wanted an irritant to wake somebody up during the early morning." He grabbed the microphone and began wildly shouting out lines. "When the engineer played it back," Ross says, "it sounded so good that I told the deejay to go home." In one zany Fourth of July ad, Ross dressed like...
...begins his memoirs with a reminder to himself and his readers that in taking on the role of Alec Guinness it would not be in character to talk about himself: "He is not at all proud of himself or his achievements and is equally attracted and repelled by the limelight, and is never quite sure how to present himself, or who he is or what he would really like to be." A compromise is reached between the writer and the subject. Guinness will only discuss Guinness when he is relevant to the general narrative...