Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal and family background of each student was thoroughly studied. Except for slightly higher SAT scores by the very alienated, none of the groups had common backgrounds...
...recognizable round the world, and already its citizenry has rallied. Last month an out door exhibition of outstanding examples of such famous modern sculpture as Rodin's St. John the Baptist, a Calder stabile, and Bauhaus-Teacher Gerhard Marcks's Three Graces were set out against the background of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Many of the works came from private St. Louis collections. If the city lives up to its Medici potential, many will soon become public, playing their role in plazas and malls...
Califano at the Texas White House that he was to run the aluminum show, thus enabling Lyndon Johnson to keep in the background. McNamara quickly moved into the limelight in front of Gardner Ackley, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and Commerce Secretary John Connor (who opposed the stockpile dumping as unworkable, confined his own action to a speech defending the Administration after the price hike had been rescinded). McNamara used roughly the same technique that the U.S. had used on the Russians during the Cuban missile crisis: turn the screw only half a notch at a time, then release...
...emotion where they don't exist. His actors read the overly precious lines as realistically as possible, and the humorous scenes are more successful than the painfully low high drama. Paul Benedict, with a comic deadpan, plays the resistance fighter husband of a wife from a crumbling aristocratic background. He's terribly funny but not strong enough to make his convictions plausible. Lisa Richards as his wife does an outstanding job with a whining, pathetic character...
...lost his subtlety. In the scene when Nicole finally levels with Pierre as they break up, the director switches to a strikingly original technique. He places them on the top-floor terrace of an uncompleted apartment building, so that Nicole's profile is set against the slightly unfocused background of the Paris skyline. You receive both the sense of her sudden openness and his response of partial dizziness. When Pierre looks down from the edge of the terrace as Nicole drives away in a cab, the impact of their separation becomes terribly intense...