Ms. Messinger shrugged off such questions as she made the best of her sudden political celebrity.

In private, Clinton had in fact been trading on her political celebrity for some time.

"Yesterday was the first time that somebody recognized me," he said, sounding a bit amazed at this first step toward political celebrity.

He took office after becoming a political celebrity in the 1970's and 80's.

She tried to remember all the political celebrities who had ended up married to their bodyguards.

There was nary a movie star or a political celebrity in sight.

Attributing engravings depicting American military and political celebrities to the father or son may be difficult.

Harkin appears to prefer the company of his children to that of political and media celebrities.

The men became international political celebrities among the labour movement.

Carter in turn sometimes resented Kennedy's status as a political celebrity.