Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening folk-music dances were saved from the uninspired musical background and the below-average chorus work by the brilliance of Eric Lessinger's ballet dancing. Together with Ilsa Koretsky, he exhibited impressive technical ability, and his portrayal of God in "The Creation" awed the entire audience...
Instinct for Quacks. Moran's explanation for his act of biographic terrorism is simple. "It is not possible to follow the last 25 years of Sir Winston's life without a knowledge of his medical background," he wrote in a letter to the London Times last week. "It was exhaustion of mind and body that accounted for much that is otherwise in explicable. Only a doctor can give the facts accurately...
Because of her background, the Mounties concluded, Gerda "was extremely vulnerable to further exploitation by the Russian intelligence service," and indeed "the opportunity existed for such communication...
...hard to take this idea very seriously, for it is also universally admitted that Harvard doesn't offer much to those undergraduates who do come with some background. A Dean Stolber, who has been acting continuously since he was eight, or a John Lithgow, who develops unusual technical abilities by the middle of his sophomore year, is not likely to meet with the direction or the suggestions to stretch his talent. If Harvard theatre can't help the incompetent and doesn't help the competent, there is some question just who it is there...
...characters might talk the way they do were they saying the things he has them say. But he tends to throw them at each other with an almost unbelievable viciousness, and without ever providing really adequate motivation. He also tries on occasion to sneak into a conversation a little background material that is obviously only for the audience's benefit...