Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less in the later albums: The Muzak of Havana Daydreaming, for instance, also had "My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jesus." Whatever whammy Buffett still has doesn't come out in the songs he writes nowadays, only in his concerts, because there, his barband background can't help but stomp. Buffett's genial Musak musings are a lot easier to take, too, when he serves them up-tempo...
Friday, April 7: Lecture--The Background and Implications of the Lebanese Crisis for Arab-Israeli Peace, Sherman Teichman Lewis Hall Lounge...
Several paintings at the BVAU explore women in a sensitive and thought-provoking manner. In "Altomare," Phyllis Berman depicts women larger than life against a nearly monotone background. The emotion of the figure, particularly her hesitancy, is heightened by her dramatic angle in relation to the canvas...
...Portrait of Sarah Pitkin," an oil by Marguerete Walsh, is alarmingly real. A woman in an Indian gauze shirt seems to harbor distrust and fright. The plain background makes the portrait more believable; Sarah Pitkin could be sitting in your own home. The figure's emotions are made larger than life through the proportions of the painting itself...
...chronically depressed brother of Jane's roommate. In the end, Voight's role as an analyst is more important than his role as a veteran. But he is too perfect, especially in the film's climax when Dern confronts his wife with his knowledge of her affair. While the background music of the Chambers Brothers' "The Time Has Come Today" gets louder and louder, the tension mounts--Dern aims his deranged look and the automatic weapon held in his shaky hands at his wife. Suddenly there is a knock on the door. In wheels Voight, who in his native, mellow...