Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artist off on assignment in style and comfort. She keeps track of them on their travels, serves as assistant customs broker when they return from abroad, translates their imaginative notes into reasonable expense accounts. In between times, she keeps busy collecting the photographs that some artists work from, finding background symbols (the insignia for Soviet Admiral Gorshkov's uniform, Feb. 23, 1968; the collection of birth control pills, April 7, 1967), or arranging sittings when our artists paint from life, as they sometimes...
...would let himself go more than he does. He obviously loves his stuff, and he would do his audience a favor by sharing this love more. Still, I'd walk a mile just to hear some of his tunes on Muzak, and Hammond's voice is much more than background music...
DIETRICH WESSEL sat on the side of the stage in Lowell Lecture Hall Friday night smoking a cigarette, staring at the audience in disbelief. A leader in German SDS, Wessel had spoken for about an hour on his movement, its goals, its background, its accomplishments. Midway through his speech, the hissing had started. The people who had been talking in the back began to hiss. They didn't want to hear Wessel. They were bored, they held up watches to tell Wessel that he was taking too much time. This was his first encounter with a Harvard audience, and Wessel...
Later. The country house of Diane Tremayne. Mark asks, "Who are you?" She does not answer. But look to the background...
...background, someone reads aloud from a French poster: "Stop the American aggression. Peace in Vietnam...