Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never been secretive about his opinion of our coverage, which sharply delineated the country's downward slide under his capricious rule. The situation drastically changed last September when an attempted Communist takeover was put down by the army, and the generals began to maneuver Sukarno into the background...
Despite his brawler's background and pugnacious mien, Hoffa possesses Stalinesque talents for political maneuvering, deftly dividing adversaries and concentrating authority in his own hands. Fitzsimmons' election is symbolic of how Hoffa has retained power; it gives him a fighting chance to continue his rule, from behind bars if necessary...
What Walt Whitman called "measureless oceans of space" swelled across the background of most 19th century U.S. painting. Whether seas of grass or prairies of briny waves, the American wilderness seemed to have only distant dimensions. The way to conquer that expanse was to shrink it to human scale and bring man to the foreground of the new nation's wide horizons. Winslow Homer set out to bring the American vista into focus...
...archives of Istanbul. Biblical Scholar David Flusser of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, one of the world's ranking experts on early church history, calls the discovery "as important for the story of the first Christians as the Dead Sea Scrolls were for understanding the pre-Christian background...
...mostly just a series of sound effects. When Caesar's ghost appears to Brutus, Tharon Musser's eerie lighting makes it quite unnecessary to add the off-stage roll on the cymbal. And must we have another crude cymbal roll when Brutus runs on his sword? As a background to the aura of death at Philippi, Susa has also introduced on the harp an ostinato pattern from the Dies irae plainchant, which recalls the identical ostinato near the end of Rachmaninoff's tone-poem Isle of the Dead. At any rate, I suspect that even Sousa would have done better...