Word: limelighter
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...made his clients believe he was a bulldog ... Basically, in this town, if you're not in the limelight, you're nobody. Pellicano was in the limelight; in fact, I think he liked it a little too much." - Richard DiSabatino, Beverly Hills P.I., on his fellow shamus (The Guardian, March...
...that the caretaker government was a dictatorship in civilian clothing have subsided. "The best thing that [the army] has done," says Ali Riaz, chair of the department of politics and government at Illinois State University, "is reduce its visibility." As the two begums ready for their return to the limelight - a prospect few among the military brass would have stomached months ago - observers are confident that the election's results will be respected and accepted by the nation's soldiers...
...video. This is Cuba, 2008. For most people, there's still not much besides sugar, pork and 1956 Chevrolets. This band practicing in the cramped living room--Los Reyes '73 (the Kings of '73)--was famous decades ago but traveled so much abroad that it fell out of the limelight. Now the band has new members, neither well-off nor famous: just another group of ridiculously skilled Cubans trying to hit a seam in a tightening music market...
...Though Dolly the sheep was the first clone to be shoved into the limelight, in 1996, the process of human-directed cloning has existed since 1952. In that year, American researchers Robert Briggs and Thomas King successfully removed the nucleus of a tadpole's embryonic cell and transferred it to a donor cell, cloning 27 tadpoles in the experiment. This groundbreaking achievement landed the scientists the internationally lauded Charles Leopold Mayer Prize of the Académie des Sciences, making them the first Americans in history to receive the award. (Read TIME's first story about Dolly...
...Nevertheless, with his advancing age, toothy smiles, and acknowledged struggle with hair loss, Berlusconi still will have a counterpart to turn to in Washington: Vice President Joe Biden. They may both have to resort to gaffes to get a piece of the limelight...