Word: limelighted
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...coming back? There are two reasons: love of the limelight and a yearning for money. There is no question that Ali has lost attention since he retired, and the man thrives on being surrounded by cheering crowds and inquisitive reporters. There is also no question that the man lives well, and the proposed $7 million paycheck he will receive for climbing in the ring against Tate will buy a lot of car batteries. But, is it worth it? Muhammad Ali is no longer the fighter he once was. A young and enthusiastic Cassius Clay, with the quick hands and feet...
...just making a mental calculation of what 16 minutes of prime time television would cost me," he explains when the program ends. Exposure has been good for Anderson. The nationally aired Iowa Republican debate, Anderson realizes, at least brought his candidacy out of the shadows, if not into the limelight...
Cara B. Seiderman '81, secretary general and chief organizer for the event, said this year's U.N. attracted so many people because of international relations' recent "movement into the limelight...
Morris shares the limelight in the Georgia death penalty struggle with Millard Farmer, 45, who heads Team Defense, a money-starved Atlanta organization that represents about 10% of the state's death row prisoners. As his three criminal contempt citations indicate, Farmer pulls no punches in the courtroom. Once, while defending a black charged with killing a white police chief, Farmer's effort to have an impartial judge preside over the trial led to the disqualification of five judges. The prosecuting attorney was so upset that he burned one of his law books. "I don't have...
...soon as he could." But Zeppo eventually became the richest of the brothers, working variously as a talent agent, an airplane parts manufacturer and a citrus grower. His marriages (one to the current Mrs. Frank Sinatra), gambling sprees and occasional public scraps kept him in the limelight when Hollywood no longer did, but he spent his last years quietly in a Palm Springs mobile home...