Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prefers talking to singing; but he has worked out a way to do so and still turn out something that can be called a song. On "All Through the Night," he both sings the words of the song to one of his repetitive tunes, and jabbers away in the background through the noise of a barroom conversations. With the sonic breadth of the binaural technique, the track captures what you would like to think it would be like to see Reed live at a small club...
...diverse group, but it found a unity. Cooley notes, "I think the captain's role in uniting the boat is not as great as the sport's role itself. Whoever it is that's rowing is working towards the same goal--winning. No matter what the background, it's a very, very common bond...
...Writers Guild of America. He worked on the Guild's Family Hour--that self-imposed beast the networks adopted promising they would not air "entertainment programming inappropriate for viewing by a general family audience "between 7 and 9 p.m. Cowan tries to use the lawsuit as the background for a discussion of censorship on television and the unique problems the medium faces. But he gets lost in a series of meetings that could give the Civil Service justifiable cause to claim the D.C. bureaucracy is "lean." The problem with See No Evil is the author's approach. Trying desperately...
What Mr. Gardiner does with himself is his own business. The reasons one has for joining a final club such as the Porcellian are best passed over in charitable silence. Why must we be assured of his affection for "people with a certain financial background"? No doubt he will row for Chase Manhattan as hard as he rows for Harvard, but is this really the sort of thing that the Crimson wants to hold up as virtuous example...
Last week was typical. As it began, there were encouraging signs that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. might approve a SALT II draft treaty within a few days. The White House had scheduled a background briefing for the press, and it was known that Jimmy Carter was planning to make SALT the centerpiece of his speech at the American Newspaper Publishers Association conference in Manhattan. There was even some speculation that he would use this forum to announce the conclusion of the talks...