Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked to try a cover on the bombing halt, Wheeler was ready the next day with five different versions. The following day, he finished three more. The collage that was finally chosen shows President Johnson framed by a raggedly outlined bomb. The red octagonal shape that makes up the background is the familiar roadside stop sign...
...result is a series of melancholy pools of radiance. For some time, Poons' dots have been growing larger and more transparent. Now, in addition, he creates a varied, blotchy background by pouring his paint directly onto a canvas spread on the floor, then sweeping the color around with a broom...
...drums and sang in a dance band, and taught himself folk guitar. After a year of study at California's Westlake College of Music, he launched his career by working as a studio singer on Canadian and British television. "Musically, I'm the product of a sophisticated background," he once said, "yet my songs are basic and simple. I hope to be known as a cosmopolitan hick...
Patchwork Life. Willis Mosby shares Braun's detachment, if not his ethnic background. An American Christian gentleman and noted action-intellectual, he has withdrawn to Mexico to write his memoirs "in the vein of Sir Harold Nicolson or Santayana or Bertrand Russell." He deals at length with his patchwork life; his fundamentalist upbringing, his Rhodes scholar days, his unorthodox interpretation of John Locke, a stint for Hearst in Spain, wartime service with the OSS, and his views on F.D.R., Comte, Proudhon, Marx and Tocqueville. But then Mosby decides that his memoir needs a touch of humor...
...down harshly twice, Beck reels off long liquid strings picking up the early song tune. He starts a long uncoiling flourish with flickering electronics breaking the flow. Waller trundles mildly on the drums, Wood plays briefly on bass, Hopkins plunks furiously on piano and Beck is rolling in the background playing what sounds like a 20's melody...