Word: limelighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pechstein, Franz Marc, Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Lyonel Feininger-did have formal traits in common. Harsh, dissonant color that blared fitfully from an unrefined surface; jagged shapes, broken-bottle cubism, an appetite for the primitive in drawing; masklike faces, Gothic poses, extreme jumps of tone between limelight and gloom: the sum of these was not so much a style as a "look." For expressionism was largely an ethical matter, a display of exemplary anguish. It was one of the last convulsions of northern romanticism; and like all romantic painting, it was essentially an art of subject matter...
...women's swim team will try to grab a share of the men's limelight this weekend as it competes at the Small College Nationals in Gainesville...
Dreyfuss has recently entered the limelight with his performances in "Jaws," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and "Goodbye Girl...
Entering his 23rd year as a city councilor, having served the past four as mayor, Vellucci on Monday night tossed himself out of a chance to stay in the limelight by voting for Councilor Thomas W. Danehy, the council's most conservative member, for mayor. But as far as Vellucci is concerned, nothing much will change...
...cats and dogs "Sam," "Jingle," "Mrs. Bardell," and "Job Trotter." It is doubtful if any other single work of letters before or since has ever aroused such wild and widespread enthusiasm. Barely past the age of twenty-five, Charles Dickens had become world-famous, beaten upon by a fierce limelight which never left him for the remainder of his life...