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...late curator Richard Martin. They strove mightily to give the show an academic and historical gloss. But, really, it is a show about great clothes. And about artifacts, sacred objects assembled to evoke an irretrievable past. Outsize pictures of Jackie and her husband hang from the walls as backdrop for the actual gowns and dresses, poised silently on mannequins and bathed in soft pastels. It is as though Guinevere's gown and tiara suddenly appeared on the mezzanine of the Met, tangible proof that the fairy tale--Camelot--was real...
...wasn’t a flawless rainbow congregation. When we arrived in the jam-packed Hart Plaza amphitheatre, one man’s t-shirt caught my eye. “Come back to Detroit,” the shirt proclaimed, bold white letters crying out against a black backdrop. “We missed you the first time.” A menacing handgun illustration accompanied the aphorism...
...Megahistory and personal history never integrate. Even the assault on Pearl has a curiously abstract air about it. Authentic figures such as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jon Voight), Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) and heroic black mess attendant Doris "Dorie" Miller (Cuba Gooding Jr.) appear in supporting roles, and the backdrop reaches for historical accuracy?at least until it gets in the way of the main story...
...Paris had the backdrop of the century - for example, they were planning to hold the equestrian events in the Tuilieries. it would have been spectacular. And Toronto had a very compact, very interesting site proposal...
...what amazes me most about my job is the backdrop for these menial tasks and the context in which they’re placed. Making copies in general sounds horrible, but making copies of a press release for a major press conference on a significant piece of legislation is oddly enjoyable. Calling random people and getting contact information sounds dull, but calling random famous people like Willie Mays and Paul Newman in order to update the Senator’s personal black book is not so bad. Catching the bus in the morning sucks at first, but driving up Pennsylvania...