Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Musically this tune features a number of well-executed solos which play off against each other. Also present, as in Dark Side, is atonal background music, the musical equivalent of an astronaut floating aimlessly about in space. Midway through the piece, the soothing vocals enter to offset the rawness caused by the strident solos...
...expresses a whole era. This is possible if the author inserts his reactions to the social world into the text, since he is being buffeted by the social order as much as any other man (supposedly he is suffering from "alienation, reification, frustration, want, solitude, against a suspected background of possible plenitude"--but that's another story). Even the Invisible Man, who lives in a hole in a basement lit by exactly 1369 light bulbs, cannot be allowed--as a valid literary invention and especially as a black man--to shirk the contradictions of the whole planet...
Painful Death. By way of background, Colby revealed that the agency in 1952 began a supersecret research program, code-named M.K. Naomi, partly to find countermeasures to chemical and biological weapons that might be used by the Russian KGB. Former CIA Director Richard Helms reported that a KGB agent used poison darts and poison spray to assassinate two Ukrainian liberation leaders in West Germany. The CIA also wanted to find a substitute for the cyanide L-pill, the suicide capsule used in World War II. Cyanide takes up to 15 minutes to work and causes an agonizingly painful death...
...been, and will remain, the final arbiter of Portugal's revolution. For the first time, the members of the Council-now trimmed to 19-were elected by separate plenary meetings of the country's military branches instead of being chosen by partisan cabals maneuvering in the background. Only three members, all navy officers, openly favor the Communists...
...itsu was an exquisite observer of small events: a patch of lichen on the pale bark of a branch, rendered with a diffused blot of malachite green; the lively flutter of peony leaves, each surrounded, with a kind of inlaid distinctness, by a barely noticeable fringe of untouched background...