Word: limelighted
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...real ending consists of the next five minutes, with Prince and nothing else at the limelight--an appropriate conclusion for a movie that, in spite of occasional digression, is an extension of Prince's persona...
...runs for some forsaken minor league team in front of 400 fans and loving every minute of it. Usually when former major leaguers return to the minors it is rather sad. They return to the long bus rides hoping to find the stuff that once put them in the limelight, but Lee isn't doing that. His arm is more or less shot, he hasn't pitched in the majors in over two years, and he has been effectively blackballed by front office types who think he has a bad attitude. No, Lee must be playing because he likes...
...Election Day draws nearer, Reagan will seek the video limelight even more. On the Fourth of July, he will start the Daytona Beach Firecracker 400 stock-car race by telephone from Air Force One. The President's jet is scheduled to land at the airport within camera range of the track, and if all goes smoothly, the onetime sportscaster might even climb into the announcer's booth and call a few laps. Smiles a Reagan campaign official: "That ought to be seen at some point by millions of good, solid, Middle Americans." But that is nothing. Some...
...widow returns to the political limelight...
...from office in a bloodless coup eight years ago, most of the country bid her good riddance. Inflation had reached astronomical levels, the country teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, and in the streets, violence, kidnaping and murder ruled. Last week, however, the irrepressible Isabel returned to the political limelight in only her second visit home since she went into self-imposed exile in Spain after the 1976 military coup. This time, Argentina welcomed the widow of Juan Perón as if she were a visiting head of state...