Word: limelighted
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Even while endorsing Coffey, we have to admit that the rest of the vice presidential candidates are a far more impressive bunch than the presidential candidates; we'd almost prefer that the races were switched. Former Treasurer Brian K. Blais '97 has been a steady worker outside the limelight, and Bradford E. Miller '97 (who is a Crimson editor) has pushed for several pieces of pro-student council legislation...
...sold him out, literally, to MGM, and Keaton lost control of his films. It was a crash that led to pained obscurity--as second banana to Jimmy Durante, gag writer for Red Skelton, waxwork to Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd., cracked mirror image to Chaplin in the 1952 Limelight. Keaton died at 70 in 1966. He never got to savor the happy ending that film history had planned: the rediscovery and restoration of his films, the flabbergasted smiles of today's children gazing on the Great Stone Face, the influence his work has on movie comics--as both inspiration...
...legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "His cases showed the country that it was divided on many issues. But he was criticised late in his career of being something of a media hound. And to some extent, he earned that criticism. Toward the end he seemed to be driven by the limelight...
...members of Perot's United We Stand America organization, the only thing close to a national party to emerge from the antiestablishment rebellion he sparked in 1992. Although he will be on Larry King Live again this week and has a penchant for hogging the limelight, Perot insists his sole duty in Dallas is to act as host to the visiting luminaries, all of whom he will introduce before they appear at the podium. Furthermore, he no longer appears hell-bent on running for President, and is not going to form an actual third party...
...family kept an anxious vigil all week. "When you're not in control of a situation that involves a person you love with all your heart, you go crazy," said Stacey, who was born on Scott's third birthday in 1968. That was an audacious usurpation of the limelight for which her older brother, she says, never quite forgave her and that, until now, he has been unable to undo. "You grasp for hope and a prayer." Plus one other thing. During the final two nights of O'Grady's ordeal, Stacey slept with her brother's old, well-used...