Word: limelighted
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...Eisenhower Administration his lines are something less than religious. e.g., the Administration is "a fantastic political Disneyland . . . half-informed, with a half-thought-out program, half-carried-out, half in the hands of a halftime, half-hearted President." He would be pleased if keynoting should put him in the limelight as a vice-presidential possibility. Unquestionable aid in any projected campaign: his pretty blonde wife ("I want you to know 'Cile; once you know her, you'll like me"), three good-looking children-Robert. 12; Frank Jr., 6; James...
...changed his name from Duchamp to hide his early art activity from his stern Normandy father) is a member of a long-famous painting family, which includes his brothers, Cubist Sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp. For years Jacques Villon was out of the limelight, working as a newspaper cartoonist and engraver. He began achieving belated recognition when he won first prize in the 1950 Carnegie International...
...most highly regarded way of keeping up interest in non-election years--and the best way to keep an organization in the public limelight--is a good speaker program. Even in 1892 this fact was realized...
...Gronchi has also managed, by double force of his ambition and his personality, to raise the presidency from the cornerstone-laying, banquet-attending job it started out to be. "Not only does he intrude on the [Premier's] powers," Stevens reported, "he also crowds him out of the limelight and steals the show...
...hysteria by an army of paid propagandists as a means of advancing a policy of avowed political pressure and of stimulating fund raising. Never before has a propaganda campaign in behalf of a foreign government been planned and carried out more blatantly and cynically, in the blaze of limelight and to the fanfare of publicity, than the present wave of hysteria now being worked up among American Jews...