Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Starr, the panel's project director, said yesterday he and other delegation members, including other panel chairmen, chose Horner because "we wanted as broad a range of opinions and background as possible." He added the panel members were selected last September...
...delegation's report, planned for release late this year, will use personal observations and statistical evidence as background...
...MacConnel's Baton Rouge, 1978. There is also a liking for emblems, sometimes of a puzzling sort−as in the paintings of Lois Lane (not a pseudonym), which sport in profile a curious little animal vaguely resembling a horse, silhouetted on a column against a dark background or dangling from what appears to be a parachute. Here, quirkiness is pushed almost to the the point of risk...
...Asimov, wearing his mystery writer's hat, works it out with ease. He also introduces himself as a character and manages to dominate long passages of the novel; when Asimov is not onstage, other characters are talking about him. This amiable megalomania often shoves suspense well into the background. Murder at the ABA, published in 1976, will not keep readers on the edge of their seats; it is a well-worn armchair, overstuffed, shaky at the joints, but a comfortable place...
...believe I've found myself overqualified for life as we know it."), but the kid knows how to play off the audience like the great comic actors. Hanes is raw material, and when he goes into the Elvis-takeoff tune "Stud" (my favorite song in the show, complete with background choreograpy in the finest Motown tradition), you'll know he doesn't spend his Saturday nights watching "Mannix...