Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five years later, earned a full-fledged slot. In 1976 Chernenko was elected a secretary of that 287-member body, and 14 months ago he was named an alternate (nonvoting) Politburo member. He was frequently observed deep in conversation with Brezhnev at public functions, only to slip into the background when actual ceremonies began. Chernenko was the only Politburo member to accompany his boss on a lengthy rail voyage to the Southern Caucasus last September...
...Minsky 's, Friedkin devotes great care to the ambience of Brink's.The production design by Dean Tavoularis (Godfather II) creates an almost dreamlike portrait of the ethnic tenements, greasy dives and teeming alleys that define the heroes' oldtime Boston underground. There is a jolly background score by Richard Rodney Bennett, as well as appropriate quotations from Walter Winchell and Movietone News. Devotees of Friedkin's most recent films may be shocked to discover that Brink's is utterly devoid of gore and brutality...
...real world faded into the background after that. Jimmy Carter managed to penetrate once in a while, with some new advance or retreat from the principles of Camp David that he and Time magazine had so carefully formulated; largely, however, the concerns of the campus became internal ones. Salmonella ravaged, or at least attempted to ravage, a good number of Houses, and conversation turned to acronyms: CRR, ACSR, HRDC. Life seemed simple...
Charismatic figures are universal, but Jones's intensely American origins and the genesis of his philosophy are unique. His very name seems to speak of the American normalcy of his background: Jones, your neighbor, the guy at the plant. He was born in Indiana, the heart of the heartland. Far from the seaboards, with their cosmopolitan outlooks and their receptiveness to foreign ideas, the midwest would seem the most inhospitable place for some "strange cult" to take root...
There is a delegate's voice in the background -- high-pitched, insulted and serious. He looks about 16 years old, is wearing a pinstripe suit and will someday be the ambassador to a small African nation. "That man isn't Elliot Richardson, it can't be," he whispers just a little too loudly. "He's an impostor. He hasn't answered one question straight yet." One of the U.N. organizers -- he is wearing a little badge with the VERITAS symbol superimposed on the U.N. symbol -- looks annoyed. It is a slow, shaky start...