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...both plays is basic. For Hamlet, boxes are piled up to form a wall, which creates a backdrop for scene changes. These consist of different symbols held up on a pole, including a moon; this silliness keeps the play's atmosphere light. For the Macbeth set, the JCR becomes a simple living room; both plays utilize the narrow space to its full potential...
...balloon-bedecked stage of the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville, Tenn., became a backdrop for Ronald Reagan one night during the 1984 presidential sweepstakes. That evening the image of the President standing next to Minnie Pearl and singing happy birthday to Roy Aikens flashed on television screens...
...midweek, Weinberger and Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle appeared in the Pentagon briefing room. They stood before an array of charts and photographs, including ones of Leonid Smirnov, director of the Soviet Military Industrial Commission, and KGB Boss Victor Chebrikov. The rogues' gallery provided an atmospheric backdrop for distribution of a 34-page study on how the Soviets have advanced 5,000 of their research projects with technical information bought, stolen or acquired legally in the West...
...million in its most recent quarter, the first red ink in the company's history. The firm is still recovering from a sweeping corporate housecleaning this summer in which 1,200 of Apple's 5,850 employees were let go. The company's woes, moreover, have occurred against a backdrop of sluggish sales throughout Silicon Valley and the entire computer industry. The beleaguered firm thus cannot take lightly even the symbolic threat posed by Jobs' new company, which will produce computers for the education market, long an Apple specialty...
Such gentle humor is set against a backdrop of tragedy. The year before Macon and Wife Sarah separate, their twelve-year-old son Ethan is among bystanders systematically shot and killed by hold-up men at a fast-food outlet. Baldly stated, the irony seems a tasteless contrivance: Son of Junk-Food Expert Slain ) at Burger Bonanza. But like Evelyn Waugh in A Handful of Dust and John Irving in The World According to Garp, Tyler uses the senseless loss of a child to refine feelings out of a parent's worst fears...