Word: backdrop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strongest memory is in Kodachrome because it actually exists as a three by five picture in my album. This picture shows three young men, one black, one white and one Asian, standing against a backdrop of Mount Baker in Washington State. They—actually we—looked happy, but tired just as one would expect after a days climb...
...Josh Hartnett), friends since boyhood, fall for a hot nurse (Kate Beckinsale). Ultimate sacrifices ensue. Authentic figures such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jon Voight), Lieut. Colonel James H. 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...
...accident waiting to happen, because Iraqi air defense personnel are growing bolder and the law of averages suggests that the U.S. and Britain - the only two members of the original Gulf War alliance that still patrol the zone - will sooner or later lose a pilot. That against a backdrop of concern that the "no-fly" zone no longer forms part of any comprehensive military-political strategy against Baghdad. Because despite congressional enthusiasm for the Iraqi National Congress, there's a great degree of skepticism in Washington - particularly in the Pentagon - over whether they're even a serious irritant to Saddam...
Murakami’s work skillfully avoides the standard literary categories and tired non-plots that plague so many other contemporary writers. Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a student in love with a woman in love with another woman, all against the backdrop of the Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of the Sputnik satellite. Don’t worry, it’s more bizarre and wonderful than it sounds, and the adventure leads us from Japan to Europe to the coast of Greece and then to the satellite itself. You need to be somewhat cool...
...housewives must duck for cover. As the two leading men, Hartnett and Affleck (who character is ridiculously named Rafe) play childhood best friends who happen to be daredevil fighter pilots. They inevitably fall in love with the same woman (Beckinsale), although their romance must take a seat to a backdrop of terrifying destruction. An exploration of emotion, the film looks to be about loss of innocence, both of America and of the participants, and can serve as a cautionary tale commemorating the nation's greatest military debacle. Early reports indicate that the love story-contrived and imbecilic as most Hollywood...