Word: limelighted
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Agee's standing with Hennessy may have been doomed by a difference in style. While Agee enjoys the limelight, Hennessy is a low-key, no-nonsense executive. In December, Agee and Cunningham appeared in a PEOPLE magazine spread that included a picture of Bill on his knees before Mary. Asked about this by the Wall Street Journal, Hennessy said, "All I know is, I wouldn't do it." Cunningham is now a vice president for strategic planning at Seagram, the Manhattan-based liquor manufacturer. For the past eight months, she and Agee have been commuting between a suite...
...just five goals in O'Connor's three finals. And if there's one thing you can count on, he points out, it's that "you always meet hot goaltending in the Beanpot"--at both ends. Three times O'Connor played superbly and three times other goalies stole the limelight--first Demetroulakas, then Lau and Daskalakis...
NORMAN MAILER'S successful first novel, The Naked and the Dead, catapulted him permanently into the public limelight. Ever since then, the author's explanations of the evolution of the hip consciousness of the 1960's, his battle with the feminists, his Pulitzer Prize-winning later books (Armies of the Night and The Executioner's Song), and his stabbing of his second wife have all contributed to the veil of mystery and doubt surrounding him. Hilary Mills does an excellent job of clearing away the gossip and rumors and presents an orderly, well-documented, thoughtful chronicle of Mailer's life...
...politicians, the sustaining and safeguarding of reputation come hard. Not only are they cut up by rivals, and by columnists with opposing views, but their presence, in the limelight exposes traits in them that reporters seize upon. With Gerald Ford, a frequent target was his physical clumsiness; with Jimmy Carter, it was his "meanness." (The knock on Ronald Reagan, which White House publicists are trying to deflect, is "insensitivity" about the poor.) Carter is still in limbo: he roams the country flogging his memoirs, to a public not yet ready to resuscitate...
...rule the Soviet Union from splendid isolation in the Kremlin, but Yuri Andropov is a curious exception. As onetime Ambassador to Hungary, he has had more contact with foreigners than many of his comrades who have spent their careers at home. Now that he has stepped into the international limelight, scattered details and vignettes from his past have begun to emerge, adding both light and shadow to the Andropov portrait...