Word: limelighted
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Anecdotes & Omissions. His book is wonderfully revealing of the sources of his art, which developed the Tramp from the foot-in-the-cuspidor antics of the early two-reelers to the intense tragicomic ironies of those two flawed masterpieces, Monsieur Verdoux and Limelight. But it is uneven and uncommunicative about his many loves and his vociferous left-wing politics, supplying instead great heaps of anecdotes about his encounters with famous people from Einstein and Gandhi to Pablo Casals, Chou Enlai, and Khrushchev...
More Tightfisted. Gordon is eminently discreet, carefully avoids the limelight and insists that he is only a staff worker for the President. But he has quietly emerged as one of Washington's rising powers, and his influence on economic policy within the Administration is steadily widening. That influence has been enlarged by the situation of the Government's two chief advisers on economic policy: Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller will leave Government service this fall, and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon does not expect to be kept in his post for another Johnson term. Gordon...
...this, as in most other respects, Nikita Khrushchev's style is more bourgeois than Borgia. His only son Sergei is a bespectacled engineer who shuns the limelight the way Papa relishes it. What really interests Sergei Nikitovich Khrushchev is butterflies and home movies...
Died. Brendan Francis Behan, 41, professional Irish tosspot and boyo terrible, semiprofessional writer of wit and distinction, a pudgy, rumpled, onetime juvenile terrorist for the I.R.A. who staggered into the limelight in 1958 with his scabrous reform-school memoir, Borstal Boy, two brilliantly nihilistic plays of Dublin low jinks, The Quare Fellow and The Hostage, but despite faint, repeated vows to stay "off the gargle" subsequently squandered his fireworks in binges from Los Angeles to London; of diabetes, jaundice and acute alcoholism; in Dublin...
...punishing. Because sound-track music must be written to fit snatches of action that are timed to the second, it rarely makes sound musical sense-and heard apart from the film, it seldom makes sense at all. Except for a few haunting cases such as Forbidden Games, Black Orpheus, Limelight, movie scores are usually forgotten together with their movies, despite the recent proliferation of sound-track...