Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...covered up. After the title song, the women chorus members are forced to squirm off stage in a clump, giving one mutual twitter with all the naturalness of a concerted burp. There are fewer transition problems in the second act, probably because there are fewer transitions. Once the background has been rather slowly introduced in the first act, the denouement melodically takes place at zany, breakneck speed. Even so, the second act, as a whole, is much better than the first...
...makeshift unit of 15 women includes athletes with crew, soccer, field hockey, figure skating and dance experience. Only five have any ice-hockey background. "The first year you can't be fussy," remarks coach Joe Bertagna...
...faculty will make sure that nobody receives a Master of Divinity degree who has a glaring lack of exposure to background," Boynton says, adding that the method by which this will be done is a matter of debate...
...with some segments of the country, notably New York-Washington. The 33-page r buttal to Jordan's latest incident suggests that the sensitivity is deeper than many thought. So there is hope. Jordan, after all, is the man who once worked with Beethoven playing in the background, and who fired a fellow just when the cannons went off in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. A man who can do that has got some class even if he will not admit...
...hinterlands. If anything, the Taviani brothers flirt with the danger of caricaturing the figure of Efisio Ledda, a self-conscious Sardinian rebuke to the Tolstoyan idealization of the muzhik. And it is the very bluntness of the portrayal of the patriarch's tyranny that reveals the directors' background in documentaries. The father's capacity for sadistic fury knows no bounds in disciplining his eldest son: Efisio is a petty and mean-hearted fellow, and the Tavianis never let us forget...