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Months ago media pollsters declared the Republican race to be a contest between Vice President Bush and Senate minority leader Dole, pushing the lesserknown candidates out of the spotlight. Following former frontrunner Gary Hart's withdrawal last May, the Democratic race became a desperate search for a clear leader, extending even to non-candidates such as New York Governor Mario Cuomo. With none of the remaining seven candidates commanding a broad national following, they were soon referred to as "The Seven Dwarfs...
...McCarthy and George McGovern were given enormous boosts by their New Hampshire performances. Both candidates lost the primaries, but won the public relations battle when they finished better than expected. Walter Mondale won the Iowa caucuses by a large margin in 1984, but Gary Hart emerged instantly into the spotlight by beating the odds with a second place. Hart then became the media-appointed alternative to Mondale, shoving John Glenn, the previous number two candidate, out of the race...
...marriage has thrust the pair into the social spotlight. Says one of Lloyd Webber's close associates: "Sarah II has had quite an influence on his life. They have a certain life-style that he didn't know before. They go to a lot of parties and first nights. They entertain quite a bit. Sarah I was very much a country wife in the traditional English sense. Sarah II is more outgoing, more florid. She is more Zandra Rhodes; Sarah I, more Burberrys...
Photos of the 20-year-old Lloyd Webber from the time of Superstar show an awkward, long-haired youth blinking uncomfortably in the spotlight of fame -- the phantom of his own opera. Now, in Britain at least, he is the most prominent musical figure since the Beatles, a fixture on TV talk shows who is fussed over and clutched at whenever he walks down a street or sits in a restaurant. During his partnership with Rice, Lloyd Webber was content to let his more outgoing, voluble associate front for the pair. "Tim was a natural performer," remembers Lloyd Webber...
...accused a chance to reply. Spiro Agnew was a nonentity as Vice President until the beleaguered Richard Nixon decided to deploy Agnew to wage a smear campaign against network news bias. Fearful of Government intervention, television gave him more attention than he deserved. Agnew's hour in the spotlight ended not because his charges were disproved (they stuck in many minds) but because evidence of his past crookedness finally caught up with...