Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife that their marriage is built upon loyalty. In perhaps the sudsiest scene, Lady Marjorie gives up her young man, the Roddy Llewellyn of 1906. "I have loved you as I never have a man and never will again," she says, as the Liebestod wells up in the background...
Instead, I'll enthrall all you spellbound readers with a few of the formative moments in my hockey background...
...think that they get good training. You get good background; I think that's awfully important, because you don't know what the hell you're going to do till you get out of school. I never thought that I'd go into as much personal injury work as I've gone into. I thought I wanted to do all criminal work. Then when I got out of law school, I saw that criminal work was dangerous...The things lawyers had to do to survive, you were just on the same level as the criminal...
...evaluation. From his office less than one block away from the club, where he works for a variety of businesses and charities, the former president of the Abraham and Straus department store chain views the club as primarily a service facility for people who have a common Harvard background...
...autobiographical voice is not so sultry, seductive or worldly. "I am in love with the Arch of Triumph-aside from the Lincoln Memorial, it is the most moving monument my heart has beat to ... We returned to Rome to prepare for our audience with the Pope. With my Jewish background, I was ill prepared ... Bogie, Ted Moore, the camera operator, the Captain and I went fishing on Lake Albert. I caught a five-pound Nile perch and threw it back, just loved catching...