Word: limelighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like the caretaker of a freak that has been thrust into the limelight, what the administration wants for its W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research is some quiet respect...
...assembled at Helsinki is indisputably topnotch. The star was unquestionably that durable ex-heavy Leonid Brezhnev. Co-starring in a role that his fans are a little uneasy about is Gerald Ford, who is coming up fast as a jovial but strong character actor. Among the performers sharing the limelight will be French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. In all, leaders or representatives of 35 states will gather at Helsinki, including...
...final exams draw to a close and the pomp and circumstance of graduation steps into the limelight, discussion inevitably revolves around. "What are you doing next year?" "Oh, the law school huh? No, I'm taking next year off to make the European swing." Basically, conversation gets very tedious...
...sharing the limelight is just what New Hampshire will have to do if a band of bandwagoners in nearby Massachusetts gets its way. Led by Barney Frank, a savvy, voluble liberal Democratic State Representative, and Mark Shields, a former campaign adviser to Robert Kennedy and Edmund Muskie, the group plans to see to it that the Massachusetts primary is held the same day as New Hampshire's. The effect, of course, would be to blunt New Hampshire's political impact and to grab part of the first-in-the-nation hoopla...
...Crimson cagers have faded from the limelight of Ivy contention thanks to a 77-76 upstaging by Brown last weekend and now assume the role of spoiler as the second half of league play gets underway tonight against Princeton...