Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family background is one of affluence. More than 80 per cent of these girls have lived or traveled outside the United States. Nine out of ten of their families own their own home and three out of four live in the suburbs. Almost half of their fathers are businessmen, while almost 40 per cent are professional men. Less than one per cent of the fathers are occupied as blue-collar workers. In 90 percent of these '140 families, one or both of the parents attended college, and in 60 per cent of the families at least one parent went...
...real life gets worse, the movies get better. Europe may be preparing for the holocaust, and depression is corroding America, but in the hermetically sealed universe of the studios, everything is Ginger peachy. Rogers appears dressed entirely in coins, chanting cheerfully, We're in the Money. In the background, inevitably, preposterously, are the chorines drilled by Busby Berkeley, a choreographer whose work would now be called high camp. In a kaleidoscopic display of bangles and bosoms, they articulate 300 legs in unison, like a spangled centipede. With Fred Astaire, Ginger begins a cycle that lasts 16 years-from Flying...
...depicts a redhaired teeny-bopper in a crumpled miniskirt displaying maximum legginess. Her pose of independence is amplified by a Hula Hoop pseudo halo and a background of the Stars and Stripes. Says Lindner: "I am not a woman hater or a sadist. Women who would be angels wouldn't interest me. They'd be sexless...
...some extent, represented the "experts," those who thought the most valuable men to China were the trained and ingenious technicians. Mao Tse-tung, who loathed the "expert" ideal, dismissed P'eng and replaced him with Lin. Mao's ideal man was the "red," a man of lower class background who believed, like Mao, that will power and unquestioned loyalty to socialism and to China would together win the world...
...assistant press secretary, Johnson theoretically ranks below both Press Secretary George Christian, 39, and Deputy Secretary Robert H. Fleming, 55. But in some ways he has grown closer to the President than either. Since December, young Johnson has conducted some major briefings while his nominal superior hovered in the background. Moreover, L.B.J. has taken to inviting him for long chats and informal dinners at the White House living quarters...