Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beads. George sports a peasant-woven, hand-washable cotton from India. Paul's jacket is made of $98-a-yard pure-gold-threaded fabric originally woven for the ceremonial robes of Tibet's Dalai Lama, who had to flee his throne before he could take delivery. The background rug, Persian but of Indian design, was borrowed from Liberty's of Regent Street, where it was priced...
...discourage fuss, the Beatles lead their private lives within a maze of high hedges and walls, security guards and secret telephone numbers. Even John Lennon's art-nouveau Rolls-Royce, painted with a rainbow of swirling floral patterns on a bright yellow background, has smoked one-way glass in the side and rear windows to keep the curious from peeking in. The boys make occasional outings to such London nightspots as The Bag of Nails and The Speakeasy, but must plan them with a military eye for the element of surprise and a ready path of retreat in case...
...background and training, as well as color, Washington is well qualified to run D.C. A capital resident since his college and graduate days at Howard and American universities, he worked in the city's housing authority for 25 years, becoming chairman in 1961, a post he held until he moved to New York last year. In both cities, he was known for his ability to bend supposedly unbendable bureaucratic rules to get new low-income housing built, and to bring a sense of esthetics to that ugly duckling of American architecture. His wife Bennetta, now head of the Women...
Spindly and bespectacled, Kroyer's own background smacks more of a dropout than a Danish Da Vinci. A haberdasher's son who never went be yond grammar school, Kroyer even now winces at technical journals on the ground that "you risk reading yourself stupid." He explains his self-schooled skills by saying that "the recognition of a demand works on me like a magnet. I then set out to define the problems and correct them...
...charming, simple musical translation of Wilde's fable, a transparently written score for a vocal ensemble of children and grownups whose occasional peppery dissonances failed to diminish the limpid simplicity of its lyric lines. Like many of Williamson's works, it suggested the composer's varied background...