Crossword clues for limelight
limelight
- Fame, so to speak
- Star's spot
- A focus of public attention
- A lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light
- Formerly used for stage lighting
- What stars bask in
- Writer's Spanish article pricks faint public interest
- Story about millions coming to land gets attention
- Fruit fair's conspicuous position
- Position of prominence
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
lime light \lime" light`\, limelight \lime"light`\ An intense light produced by heating lime. See Calcium light under Calcium.
limelight \lime"light`\, n. (Theat.) That part of the stage upon which the limelight is cast, usually where the most important action is progressing or where the leading player or players are placed and upon which the attention of the spectators is therefore concentrated. Hence, a conspicuous position before the public; the center of public attention; -- used mostly in the phrase in the limelight; as, politicians who are never happy except in the limelight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1826, popular name for Drummond light, a brilliant light created by the incandescence of lime (n.1); adopted for lighthouses and later for the Victorian stage, where it illuminated the principal actors, hence the figurative sense of "on stage, at the center of attention" (1877).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls, producing a bright light by the use of incandescent quicklime. 2 (context by extension English) attention, notice, a starring or central role, present fame.
WordNet
n. a focus of public attention; "he enjoyed being in the limelight"; "when Congress investigates it brings the full glare of publicity to the agency" [syn: spotlight, glare, public eye]
a lamp consisting of a flame directed at a cylinder of lime with a lens to concentrate the light; formerly used for stage lighting [syn: calcium light]
Wikipedia
'''Limelight ''' (also known as Drummond light or calcium light) is a type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls. An intense illumination is created when an oxyhydrogen flame is directed at a cylinder of quicklime ( calcium oxide), which can be heated to before melting. The light is produced by a combination of incandescence and candoluminescence. Although it has long since been replaced by electric lighting, the term has nonetheless survived, as someone in the public eye is still said to be “in the limelight.” The actual lights are called limes, a term which has been transferred to electrical equivalents.
Limelight is a type of stage lighting used during the 1860s. It may also refer to:
Limelight is the ninth studio album by Canadian blues/ rock musician Colin James released in 2005 (see 2005 in music). The song "Into the Mystic" was penned by Van Morrison.
Limelight in Belfast, Northern Ireland is mid-sized live music and night club venue complex, which initially opened in 1987. The complex on the city's Ormeau Avenue consists of Limelight 1 & Limelight 2, as well as a bar called Katy's Bar. The outdoor terrace is called The Rock Garden.
Limelight has strong associations with new bands, homegrown talent, and indie/rock/metal club nights.
Limelight is a 2003 studio album by Marti Webb.
Limelight is a 1936 British musical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Arthur Tracy, Anna Neagle and Jane Winton. It was released in the U.S. as Backstage.
Limelight is an Australian monthly classical music and arts magazine based in Sydney. Founded in January 1976, the magazine was originally published under the name ABC Radio 24 Hours, or simply 24 Hours, and relaunched as Limelight in June 2003.
Limelight is a 2011 documentary that charts the rise and fall of New York City club king Peter Gatien. It was released in special markets throughout the United States and Canada on September 23, 2011.
Limelight is a 1952 comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Unlike his earlier films, the score was composed by Chaplin and arranged by Ray Rasch, marking this as the first film that he did not musically arrange.
The film stars Chaplin as a washed-up comedian who saves a suicidal dancer from killing herself, played by Claire Bloom, and both try to get through life; additional roles are provided by Nigel Bruce, Sydney Chaplin as Sydney Earl Chaplin, Wheeler Dryden, and Norman Lloyd with an appearance from Buster Keaton. In dance scenes, Bloom is doubled by Melissa Hayden.
During the film's release, it was divided by critics; it was heavily boycotted in the United States, and commercially failed, but was re-released in 1972 and was honored at the 45th Academy Awards. To this day, the film is strongly acclaimed as one of Chaplin's best and most personal films and has since attained a sturdy cult following.
"Limelight" is a song by the Canadian progressive rock band Rush. It first appeared on the 1981 album Moving Pictures. The song's lyrics were written by Neil Peart with music written by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. "Limelight" expresses Peart's discomfort with Rush's success and the resulting attention from the public. The song paraphrases the opening lines of the " All the world's a stage" speech from William Shakespeare's play As You Like It; the band had previously used the phrase for its 1976 live album.
The single charted at #4 on the U.S. Billboard Top Tracks chart and #55 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and remains one of Rush's most popular songs. "Limelight" was one of five Rush songs inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on March 28, 2010.
Limelight is a classical club night that takes place at the 100 Club, in Soho, London. The night aims to broaden the appeal of classical music by presenting artists in an intimate, "rock & roll" environment, undermining conventional notions that classical music needs to be heard in a formal concert hall to be enjoyed.
Unlike at traditional concerts, artists are encouraged to speak to the audience about their music choices and stay for a drink and chat at the bar afterwards. The 100 Club was chosen for the night because of its rich history, with many of the biggest names in jazz and rock having played there since it opened in 1942, including Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, the Sex Pistols and the Rolling Stones. However, the club has never before hosted classical music.
"Limelight" is the 12th single by the French singer Alizée, released in 2010. The single is an electro-pop. The music and the lyrics are by Angy Laperdrix, Guillaume de Maria, Julien Galinier and Raphael Vialla. The single was only on sale in Poland.
Usage examples of "limelight".
He fainted, and Indica found itself launched into the limelight by actually having a show of the Biennale winner mounted at the time.
Was it that Cece loved the limelight or did she just rub arrogant bitches the wrong way?
Lonna had been counting on her son to keep the Leep family in the limelight, which is the last place he wanted to be.
The night was not warm, with the breeze coming off the gulf, but Pavlo sweated oilily in the limelight, and fumbled his commands to the dogs and the albino children and his wife, and kept glancing up at the sky, which had begun ruddily to lighten in the east.
Considering the unknown outcomes of the research, this was a far more acceptable resolution to a questionable procedure than a one-time payout, which would have brought both Symbio and its government affiliations into the limelight.
So the wagons in which people no longer had to ride to sleep were stocked full of hay and grain for the horses and elephant, smoked meats for the lion, staple groceries for the humans, canisters of calcium carbide for the limelights, coils of rope, cans of paint and tar and coal oil and axle grease, harness and horseshoes and miscellaneous hardware, fabrics and thread and sequins for the wardrobe.
It gained Fritz Leiber a Hugo as the best science-fiction novel of 1958 and catapulted him right back into the limelight, but then he decided that satire was being overdone and he would try farce.
They found themselves organizing, propagandizing, podium- pounding, persuading, touring, negotiating, posing for publicity photos, submitting to interviews, squinting in the limelight as they tried a tentative, but growingly sophisticated, buck-and-wing upon the public stage.
Stephen did not like the advent of another sister, for it took some of the limelight away from his ironbound leg.
Sohegan was Brigadoon, settling back to sleep after a few glorious hours in the limelight.
So the wagons in which people no longer had to ride to sleep were stocked full of hay and grain for the horses and elephant, smoked meats for the lion, staple groceries for the humans, canisters of calcium carbide for the limelights, coils of rope, cans of paint and tar and coal oil and axle grease, harness and horseshoes and miscellaneous hardware, fabrics and thread and sequins for the wardrobe.
The limelights in the old theaters used a hydrogen flame under a ball of lime, calcium oxide.
He'd have the limelight back in a heartbeat -- all that glory, all that love -- and they'd be back on the casting couch in a week with their fannies in the air.
Having already tested his story on the Cheboygan Resident, Cadillac had added more colour and drama to the weaker passages and was only too happy to step into the limelight with some spell-binding of his own.
The presence of Lady Wetherby acted as a temporary check on the development of the situation, but after they had been seated at their table a short time the lights of the restaurant were suddenly lowered, a coloured limelight became manifest near the roof, and classical music made itself heard from the fiddles in the orchestra.