Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DISRAELI GEARS (ATCO Records). This new music group, Cream, serves up a fancy dish of hard rock topped off with choice, albeit bittersweet, lyrics. Drums whip up a froth of steady background rhythms, while the guitars and vocals tread a steady path through the blues of commentary on the human condition...
Public opinion polls about the war, the relationship between attitude toward the war and socio-economic background, and the effect of the war on Vietnamese village life might be topics chosen for individual study, Inkeles said yesterday...
...encourages promising teachers to take the city's qualifying exam-then snatches them before any other principal even knows of their existence. "A good scholar is not necessarily a good teacher," he says. "A teacher must love boys first. Then he must have a good background in methodology and in his discipline." A good teacher, he might add, does not have to be a man; O'Leary has broken 332 years of Boston Latin's all-male tradition with the appointment of four women teachers...
...writer of romantic thrillers, England's Mary Stewart, 51, has found a steady audience in the U.S.; her novels have regularly made the bestseller lists. The Gabriel Hounds ranks a cut below her earlier works, but it still offers her familiar, quick, neatly joined narrative and travel-poster background (Lebanon this time). There is also a crumbling castle for just the right touch of the gothic, and an anti-anti-hero who is restless, wealthy, athletic, loves poetry, and drives a white Porsche. With his help, the heroine invades the castle in search of an eccentric great-aunt...
...back to Michael Caine--all so quickly we might have seen four separate shots. The interior-exterior point-of-view cutting in the scene where Palmer discovers the dead Doctor Kaarna reveals Russell's sophistication concerning standard devices, as does his tendency to cut to paintings and other background objects prior to introducing characters into the frame. The cross-cutting between a Moscow-bound train and Plamer's Pursuing car is riveting, and Russell shows sensitivity in handling the Francoise Dorleac character in a style markedly different from the rest of the shooting. A night scene where she is shown...