Word: limelighting
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Competition between different classes for the limelight of a city explains the endless rivalries present in baseball cities such as New York and Chicago. Even The Crimson's rivalry with a certain semi-secret Sorrento Square organization can be attributed to different types of writers jousting for prominence on campus...
...they were made of chocolate. And I then knew that what we had here was the story of a stomach. The man is defined--was then, is now and has been all through the eight years--as the Great American Consumer. He'll eat anything. Hugs, scandal, limelight, anything, as long as he gets to stay in the center of the stage. He's got this voracious appetite: more friends, more speeches, more food, more time onstage, more hands to shake...
...around the Ivy League and established himself as one of the most difficult offensive players to contain. In four 100-yard games, during which he showed up Columbia's star running back Johnathan Reese and left No. 8 Lafayette's run defense in shambles, Palazzo has burst into the limelight the same way he rockets through a hole created by the Crimson offensive line...
Rose showed glimpses of brilliance during his freshman year and watched from the sidelines as Rich Linden '00 orchestrated the offense. As a sophomore, Rose spent most of the season nursing injuries and again remained outside the limelight, as Linden and Brad Wilford '00 battled to be the starting quarterback...
...about entering politics six years ago - she had worked in commercial real estate before running successfully in 1994 for state senate - Harris has apparently found her groove. And not a moment too soon: After Jeb Bush recused himself from the Florida recount procedures, state law thrust Harris into the limelight. Her first task? Trying to convince observers that she can, in fact, serve impartially in the most treacherous political minefield in memory...