Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good at the tapes and a bit too tricky. Every once in a while I'd get one from Julie saying 'It's midnight and I'm just dragging in from rehearsal,' and I could hear the birds singing in the background." Julie's mother cannot understand why Walton would not move permanently to Hollywood to work, but Tony would not settle for a career of being Mr. Julie Andrews. "Some husbands of stars can fit into the 'agent-manager' role," he says, but "I'm not agently inclined, and there...
...three months ago at 49, his production was entrusted to his assistant, Peter Lehmann. Still, symbolically, Wieland was there. And fittingly so, for symbolism was his stock in trade. Lohengrin was garbed in heroic gold, Elsa in innocent white, Telramund in malevolent black, Ortrud in sinister green. In the background were painted stylized designs of a madonna, a dove and a swan. The swan, unfortunately, looked more like a Boeing 707, but, said Lehmann, "I wouldn't dare change it, because that's the way Wieland drew...
...glass painting by his onetime pupil, longtime mistress and painting companion, Gabriele Munter, who had copied the traditional technique from glass paintings she had discovered in the Bavarian town of Murnau, where the two eventually settled. It is a difficult medium; details and glazes are brushed on first, the background pigments next. As the colors are enhanced through the refraction of the glass, the lustrous surfaces glow like medieval icons. Kandinsky, a lifelong Eastern Orthodox, instantly took to his new-found art form, even decorating the frames to give his works a handcrafted look...
...these clothes all the time. In your closet. On your back. It's the colors. Like, colors are beautiful, you know? That's the first thing people who take LSD talk about. The colors. Look at these pants. The blue background is happening. And then the red and silver and gold. I think it's groovy. God just didn't give anyone pants like that. Some guy worked hard to think this up. And nobody appreciates it. Everybody should accept everybody else. I mean, what right have they got to judge my clothes? I like Mod. I like the freedom...
...designed to appear to be a paragon of justice. It was built to work. Monro insists that the Ad Board should not be allowed to become an adversary process, but rather should remain a private review Board (as opposed to a public trial) which can consult confidential background material before reaching a decision...