Word: limelighted
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Though the center is located just a few floors above the Rev. Jesse Jackson's campaign headquarters, Galen insists the Republican presence is "not confrontational." Nor is the Grand Old Party trying to steal all the limelight, Galen maintains. "It's their show. They've got center stage. All we're doing is peeking out from behind the stage...
Hernandez and Parker do have excuses. They say they were forced into the limelight and nobody offered them a massage to sooth their million dollar job stress. The pressure was too much to handle; their only way of coping was through expensive, hip narcotics. They claim analysts are for wimps. Perhaps they didn't have enough time to take naps...
...VENDETTA screamed the headline of a biting front-page editorial in the Herald. "Was it something I said, Fat Boy?" asked Herald Columnist Howie Carr. IT'S WAR ON POST BUSTERS, added the Post. Underscoring the gravity of the controversy, Murdoch suspended his usual practice of shunning the limelight and went on Cable News Network's Crossfire program to make his case personally. "We're keeping the Boston Herald in spite of Senator Kennedy," he said, vowing that he would sell his small Boston TV station if necessary. Murdoch is not, however, willing to give up his New York station...
...press, which considers itself the arbiter of how long anyone lasts in the limelight, doesn't like to have that judgment challenged. Having once buried Gary Hart politically, first with its coverage of the Donna Rice weekend, then with editorials pronouncing him too flawed in character to be President, the press now finds itself having to await the electorate's verdict...
...that would probably not have been accorded to a leader who, like his predecessor Alexander Dubcek, had been forced from office. Though Husak publicly gave no reason for bowing out, he is known to be suffering from failing eyesight. He may also have wanted to be out of the limelight during the approaching 20th anniversary of Dubcek's fabled Prague Spring, the months of flowering economic and political reform that preceded, and precipitated, the invasion. Worldwide recollections of that exciting era are certain to offer unflattering contrasts to the nearly two decades of harsh political repression and economic decline that...