Word: limelighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Monsieur Verdoux is Chaplin's last great film. With Limelight (1952), he descended into stiff, nostalgic melodrama. But in Verdoux Chaplin is still in his prime, questioning life in a way outside the scope of his earlier masterpieces, redirecting the passionate feelings which ennobled The Gold Rush, Modern Times, and City Lights...
...strong military establishment. In this year's session, Ford has supported Nixon's positions on Watergate and concentrated on holding together a coalition of Republicans and Democrats to protect the President's vetoes of Democrats' bills. In doing so, he has stayed out of the limelight. He explains: "I'm an old lineman. I've tried to be a good blocker and tackier for the running back who carries the ball...
...They call me 'Big Don,' " he once said. "I'm larger than Richard. I'm not a public figure-I'm just a fellow trying to make a living. I don't want to be in the limelight...
...Donald Nixon-was caught in the limelight again last week, and the man who put him there was none other than Brother Richard. The Washington Post reported-and nobody really denied-that for more than a year during the President's first term in office he had had the Secret Service tap his brother's telephone...
...League race this fall shapes up as a realignment of the power structure. Dartmouth, which in recent years has run roughshod over the rest of the league, lost too much via graduation to maintain its spot in the limelight. Cornell has bounced back from the loss of record-shattering Ed Marinaro and created a ground attack that would even make Marinaro fans take notice. And now the Big Red has come up with defense to boot. Cornell seems destined to take over the top spot in the Ivies...