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...guitarist named Alexis Korner reigned as rhythm-and-blues king of the London club scene. Not only did his gigs at the Ealing Club provide a backdrop for crucial get-togethers attended by various future Stones, but Korner himself unknowingly forwarded musical history by releasing a certain singer and drummer from his group, freeing them to link up with two young guitarists named Richards and Jones. "If things were as they should be, Alexis would be right at the top," Charlie Watts said some years later. "It was a lot different then. People used to come up on the stand...
...Gloomy Backdrop...
...leave the reader emotionally detached. McCullough herself unwittingly calls attention to some of the holes in her description: The hospital base, Nurse Langtry decides, has made "almost no impression at all. As if it were a stage set, without substance or real meaning of its own, simply a claustrophobic backdrop for a complicated interplay of human emotions, wills, and desires." This image applies all too well to the picture we have been given of the happenings on Ward X. In fact, the backdrop McCullough describes amounts only to the sketchy biographical information she has presented in the first few pages...
Since its publication in 1969, John Fowles' multileveled romance has sold about 4 million copies and been translated into 18 languages. It is easy to see why. Against a backdrop of the lush Dorset landscape, two young lovers scale the Wuthering Heights of passion and despair. Charles Smithson, a kind and restless and resolutely ordinary gentleman of his day, meets Sarah Woodruff, once a genteel governess, now an outcast for her shameless "affair" with a capricious foreign sailor. That first gaze is enough. He abandons his wealthy fiancée, his friends and his good name to be with...
...these mergers were taking place against the backdrop of a vibrant economy, there might be little cause for concern. But Government statistics released last week showed that U.S. business remains in the doldrums. During the second quarter, the output of goods and services fell at a 1.9% annual rate, raising fears that the nation is entering its second recession in two years...