Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blown up in Kfar Saba. In a Haifa market, a 17-year-old youth tugged at an odd-looking object embedded in a watermelon and triggered an explosion; police found several more booby-trapped melons near by. In all, terrorist action killed one and wounded 13. Against this background of violence, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir called for adherence to the cease-fire resolution, adding grimly that "I must point out to Egypt, Jordan and Syria that we do not speak out of weakness...
...door of every office and asking if the company needed help. When he got to the Goldman, Sachs office, he was taken on as a porter's assistant. A large part of his ability to win financiers' confidence was that he not only did not hide this background but even exploited the curiosity value it gave him on Wall Street. Until his death, he kept on display in his office the brass spittoon that he had supposedly polished as his first job at Goldman, Sachs...
...played on a harpsichord and a violin with loosened bow to bring out the full flavor of the double-stopping. Wagner felt that the timber of the violin and the piano are naturally incompatible. Madame Carmirelli's accompanying pianist, Luis Battle, solved the problem by playing inconspicuously in the background, allowing the violin to dominate the sonata...
Part of Schifrin's versatility stems from his parents' background. His grandfather had traveled from his native Russia to Amsterdam, intending to catch the first ship to the U.S. The only boat leaving immediately was bound for Buenos Aires, so he took it. Thus, Lalo (his real first name is Boris) was born in 1932 in a city that drew no cultural and social lines between various forms of music. Argentine folk music, Spanish songs, American jazz and pop, the classics, were all treated on a par-especially in the household run by Schifrin's father, concertmaster...
...Witt, 23, works as a salaried consultant to Boston's Office of Human Rights and heads a small advertising and public relations firm. Erich Barnes, a Cleveland Browns defensive back, readily admits that his Barnes Enterprises, Inc., a public relations firm, has gained considerable yardage from his football background. "You can get in the door if they've heard of you," Barnes says, "and that is half the battle." Once inside, Barnes tells white businessmen that "if they want the black man as a consumer, they are going to have to encourage him as a producer." Barnes...