Word: limelighted
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...heroine, Margaret Nathan, is perhaps the most unsympathetic heroine in recent fiction. A recent graduate student whose dissertation is published and becomes a best seller, she is catapulted into the limelight. One tends to make the inevitable comparisons between Naomi Wolf and the commercial success of The Beauty Myth, or Camille Paglia and Sexual Personae or Susan Faludi and Backlash, all currently fashionable authors who are trotted out to discuss their tomes on talk shows...
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Third-year student Deborah A. Nolan, however, was critical of the professor's "tendency to go for publications or trials that are in the limelight...seemingly for the purpose of generating attention...
This fall the Review was once again in the limelight, with editor accusing President Emily R. Schulman '85 of racial and gender discrimination...
...wary. He had been busted several months earlier by the feds and was awaiting his sentence, having already pleaded guilty to a crime that was just as high-tech as his favorite nightclub: stealing credit reports from TRW Inc.'s computer system. Four months after that encounter at the Limelight, he moved into a Michigan jail cell, where he is serving an eight-month term...