Word: limelighted
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...fast, the next issue for campus activists may be the lack of issues for campus activists. Bored protestors may soon call for President Bok to do something horrible. In the worst scenario, lethargic liberals will ask for student "sponsors" to provide emotional support during their days out of the limelight...
...Being the President's son puts you in the limelight," he says. "While in the limelight, you might as well sell tickets." So on a typical evening recently, while going through his personal pregame drill, he eyeballed the stands. "Looks like around 25,000 tonight," he estimated. That's the number the club needed to break 1 million in attendance, a milestone that came later in previous seasons. Later the gate was announced: 26,244. Though the Rangers < were losing a close game, the new owner beamed. "I like selling tickets," says Bush the businessman. "There...
...loved being away from the limelight. She had come from a very prominent family, and what she liked about Harvard was she could lead a normal life," remembers Yolanda K. Henderson '74, who roomed with the future prime minister...
...fair to the individual work, but any novel by Alice Walker invites comparison to The Color Purple, the book that brought her into the limelight. And her newest book, The Temple of My Familiar just cannot measure...
...screenwriter, Henley has dramatized elements only hinted at in her play, but the story is the same. Sweet, just slightly trampy Carnelle (Holly Hunter) determines to win the Miss Firecracker Contest as a way of standing up to the mocking townspeople and claiming some of the limelight that illuminates her chic, snooty cousin Elain (Mary Steenburgen). Two men, Carnelle's sometime lover Mac Sam (Scott Glenn) and Elain's wild brother Delmount (Tim Robbins), act as a geek chorus to the drama, but, typically in a Henley play, the real conflict is between young women clawing each other for respect...