Word: limelighted
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Local Gang in Limelight...
Director Mark Robson, who made the picture for RKO shortly before rocketing into the limelight with Champion (TIME, April 11), imprinted it with several signs of his fresh style. For one thing, there is an intelligent use of sound. Small, natural noises-the clop of hooves and the rattle of stones under the wagon wheels-take on weight and value. Spots of unbroken silence have the quality of noonday sunlight on an empty plain. Other refreshing and honest touches: the homely treatment of four frontier chippies (including Gloria Grahame); the persuasively intimate feel of the western countryside; the sensitive cinematic...
...campaign bands, raffles, speeches, cigarette give-aways, and posters gave the Freshman Union a carnival air last night as candidates sought to push their name into the limelight before Tuesday's vote...
...time, only a few of Drew's Bay Street backers were around his headquarters in the Chateau Laurier, and fewer still were at the Coliseum. The tall, well-tailored figure of Edward William Bickle, an investment broker and Drew's best friend, caught a bit of the limelight. Notably out of the limelight was another Drew crony and constant adviser, George McCullagh. One of the most powerful Canadian publishers (the Toronto Globe & Mail), McCullagh stayed away from Ottawa lest he scare off Drew supporters who still leaned a bit toward John Bracken's "ordinary man" position...
Hiding in the Limelight. Yet that was the error made by much of the British public in the years before Churchill became a member of the war cabinet. The paradox was that he remained in part unknown despite all his own writing, all his years of public service and all that had been written about him. He hid in the limelight. His secret weapon was that everyone thought he knew all about...