Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asks the salesman Larry. A little guy, about the size of a jockey, with brown hair that flows down his head and wraps around his ears. A thin colorless face. But it's the clothes you look at. His pants. Unbelievable. A garden of paisley. Blue for the background. Quietly blue. And then WATCH OUT. Silver paisley and red and gold, all at once. Moving when he moves. Moving when he doesn't move. Baby baby baby says the radio...
...Mods. "Like, everybody should have a couple of different bags," says Larry. So clamber out of the tweed bag, baby. Mod can be creative. "I don't believe in this color combination bit," says Larry as he touches his wide tie, blue polka dots on a green background. "The other day I had on a plaid vest, a granny print shirt and paisley bell-bottoms. Everyone knows you don't wear plaid and paisley and granny print together. But it was groovy. I was digging the patterns...
Girls have a hard time matching Larry's wardrobe. "Some chicks won't even go out with me any more because I have more clothes than they do. But why should the cat always stay in the background...
...their King Christian on horseback, riding as he always did through the streets of Copenhagen, disdainfully ignoring the German soldiers. The surge of morale produced by this simple act was incalculable. Later that year, when Christian celebrated his 70th birthday, a small badge bearing his initials on the background of the Danish flag was struck-and worn by almost every Dane as long as the war lasted...
Except for the black sky in the background, the photograph might have been mistaken for a composite of the scenic grandeur of Grand Canyon and the barren desolation of the Badlands of South Dakota. But when it was flashed unexpectedly onto a screen at a meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Boston last week, sophisticated space scientists and engineers recognized the terrain immediately. It was a spectacular closeup shot of lunar landscape. That photograph of the moon's Crater of Copernicus, said NASA Scientist Martin Swetnick, is "one of the great pictures of the century...