Word: limelighting
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Much has been written, some of it bitingly critical, about the arcane ways of English public school education, but it has probably been a refuge for a boy for whom the limelight has become a laser. Wills has gone the conventional route, and that means he started boarding school at eight. The place was called Ludgrove, and it was an exclusive feeding station for Eton. To Americans the notion of sending so young a child out to board seems cruel, but those who have weathered the experience point out that if a child didn't start the English drill early...
...third force" from emerging. The two key third-force players were Grigori Yavlinsky, the leading democrat in the race, and the war hero Alexander Lebed. The team advised Yeltsin to woo his opponents publicly in order to boost their already inflated egos. "We thought that once they enjoyed the limelight, neither would be willing to drop out in favor of the other," Shumate explains. "Having them all in the race prevented the rise of a single, democratic alternative to Yeltsin...
...CLUH listens in a quiet way and then responds to students in a quiet and diplomatic way. We are not looking for the limelight. We are looking for work to get done," McLachlan says...
...matters slowed after that. One brake on the strategy was Elizabeth Dole. At the outset she was concerned that her husband would be diminished without the mantle of majority leader and that he would be forsaking the limelight of the Senate for the uncertainties of private citizenship. But she was coaxed onto the bandwagon...
...surprise to the four members of this alternative band but their dreamy-yet-vigorous sound resonated with the public immediately with the band's debut album Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?. But even now, the band prefers to stay clear of the limelight in order to concentrate on their music. The Cranberries still live in Limerick, maintaining close relations to both the city and Irish culture, but their fans are by no means limited by geography--the Cranberries have fans all across the world, While To the Faithful Departed takes a harder, more solid approach...