At the fifth such event in California last night, a handful of the world's top researchers left their labs behind for the limelight.
Cameron prefers basking in the White House limelight to the behind-the-scenes drudgery of building and sustaining EU alliances.
He has left behind a life in the limelight on the European circuit to play for an obscure team here in Makhachkala, a city so unsafe that he will fly in only to play, as he did this weekend, and then fly out again to Moscow, where he and his team live and train.
The idea, in all of these shows, is that the artist should be free to operate behind the scenes, to shirk the limelight and slip into the role of collector or curator or exhibition designer.
As someone who was more comfortable behind the scenes than in the limelight, Mr. Evans, in many ways, typified the reserve that is the hallmark of the old-style world of British merchant banking.
His ability to stay out of the limelight and work behind the scenes is why he's been so successful".
She planned to study stage management at university until she saw actors rehearsing and realised that she'd prefer to be in the limelight rather than behind the scenes.
He doesn't especially need the money, but he needs something to do, and the generic form of celebrity conferred by TV stardom would allow him to remain in the limelight while leaving politics behind.
