Word: spotlighting
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...somebody. These guys started at the top - the Buccaneers drafted Dilfer with the sixth pick in the '94 draft; Collins was the Panthers' first-ever draftee with the fifth selection in the '95 draft. Both were anointed as their franchise's... well, franchises... and both fell out of the spotlight the same way they entered it - by way of their arms - Dilfer by completing passes to players on other teams, Collins by working out with 12-ounce curls while sitting on bar stools...
Bush must know there's no hook big enough to yank Bubba entirely off the stage, but continuing to prosecute him would only give him a brighter spotlight. TV loves nothing more than someone famous in the docket. During a Clinton State of the Union speech, the networks kept a crawl on the bottom of the screen with updates on the O.J. jury deliberations. Clinton's trial would be a crawl on the bottom of the screen of the Bush presidency. And for what? Is there a negative about Clinton yet to be established, a pound of flesh left...
...than this. Last month Ritchie wed Penn's ex during a five-day celebration in a remote Scottish castle. Ritchie, 32, the father of Madonna's second child, Rocco, calls the nuptials "the best five days of my life," though it was preceded by months in a burning media spotlight. Tabloids excitedly chronicled HER PLOT TO GET TOYBOY LOVER TO ALTAR. Paparazzi stalked them in Greece, and the couple had to relocate three times. "It cost us a fortune," Ritchie says. "We couldn't go outdoors. It was a real mess...
...Fair enough. But the thing is, we've never decided exactly what is the relationship between private behavior and public performance. What is the connection between what a leader does behind closed doors and what she does when she's in the spotlight? We know that there is some kind of correlation, but we're not exactly sure what it is. Which brings me to the sad case of Jesse Jackson...
...watched Whitman's hearing and the surrounding media circus, TIME's Ann Blackman noticed that another new face was doing her best to stay out of the spotlight. "It was really interesting to me that Hillary - considered by many to be a world-class orator, and who must have incredibly strong feelings about John Ashcroft because he represents everything that is anathema to her - never made a single comment about him or his nomination. It's because she realizes, hey, I'm the junior senator from New York here, and she doesn't want to risk upstaging Chuck Schumer...