Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couple hundred students as background in the stands." Golden said. Harvard and Radcliffe students will be needed. Paramount will pay $10 to $15 per day plus lunch for each extra. Unfortunately, the Harvard hockey squad cannot be paid or their playing status would be jeopardized...
...shifting attention within the static frame. One continually rediscovered the composition's different elements as the people in the shot moved and talked. Finally, Warhol began to zoom and pan, giving people an appearance entirely different from the hard-edged definition of the preceding films. The collapsing of background and foreground typical of telephoto shots gives his latest films a different kind of unity, based on skin textures and whole-frame tonal consistency...
...forced political candidates' views about homosexuality into recent election campaigns in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Homosexuals have picketed businesses, the White House and the Pentagon, demanding an end to job discrimination and the right to serve in the Army without a dishonorable discharge if their background is discovered...
...unofficial source that has delighted journalists and displeased the Vatican is the liberal, scholarly International Documentation Center. Set up in Rome during Vatican II to provide the Dutch press with detailed background information, IDOC has since become an international clearinghouse for information on the renewal movement in all churches. During the synod, an offshoot of IDOC presented daily a panel of four theologians and historians to analyze the Vatican bulletins...
Since 1959 the Center has regularly published an annual report of 50-100 pages, which describes in detail its research and other activities, shows its expenditures and main sources of income, and summarizes the background of all members and associates of the Center. Anyone interested in further information about the Center and its activities may obtain copies of these reports...