Word: limelighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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European women in the main stadium limelight will likely include a tall, nervous blonde, High Jumper Ilona Gusenbauer of Austria. She has leaped four inches higher than her own considerable height of 5 ft. 1 11 in. to set a world record. But she is a constant worrier-about keeping up with the housework, about not spending enough time with the baby-and it sometimes affects her performances. Almost a foot shorter than Ilona is Olga Korbut, who weighs only 84 Ibs. She is the smallest member of a Russian gymnastic team that as usual looks exceptionally talented. Unusually...
That scrutiny has been enhanced by television. The political leader is always on view, with few chances for escape. Thus George Wallace makes a speech behind a bulletproof lectern-and then darts out to shake hands with a crowd that includes his would-be assassin, who seeks the same limelight. John Wilkes Booth, a professional actor, plotted to murder Abraham Lincoln in a theater where he would have a captive audience. Contemporary assassins are supplied with a much larger stage by television. They know that their deed, or its immediate aftermath, will be witnessed by millions of horror-struck citizens...
...mustache. Congresswoman Bella Abzug leaned over his table, clutching her floppy pink hat. "The audience, the audience!" he exclaimed to her. "Everybody was in the audience!" Actor Zero Mostel loomed up and kissed him from the depths of an enormous beard, Actress Claire Bloom, one of his leading ladies (Limelight, 1952), appeared at the table. Roulette Goddard-another protegee (Modern Times, 1936) and his third ex-wife-was somehow brought unscathed through the crowd to chat with him for a couple of minutes. A nearby window was a refracted pattern of outsiders with faces and noses pressed against the glass...
...high profile does not necessarily mean that the moderates have won out. After Chou, the liveliest figure on the Peking scene nowadays is Mao's wife, Chiang Ching, the reddest of the Red Guard leaders during the Cultural Revolution. For nearly two years she was out of the limelight. But the current issue of the English-language propaganda magazine China Pictorial features eleven color photographs reportedly taken by the multifaceted Mme. Mao. One was an unusual portrait of Mao's long-missing heir apparent, Lin Piao. Lin, who was last seen in June, was pictured reading the Chairman...
...commercials. But it was 60-year-old Ruby Keeler's artful tap dancing in No, No, Nanette (which opened on Broadway in January and is still playing to packed houses) that provided the real reveille for taps. Almost from the moment that Ruby clacked back into the limelight, percussive, slam-bang tap, which had languished for nearly 40 years, was popular again...