Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find King a revelation. The struggles of Montgomery and Birmingham, of Selma and Chicago are all re-enacted with corrosive force. So, too, are the many efforts to block King's progress, whether by thugs or Southern sheriffs or J. Edgar Hoover. Against this tumultuous background, King's courageous devotion to nonviolent activism assumes appropriately heroic proportions...
...Monty Python groupie realizes what was wrong with that TV re-run; adding the visual dimension to the already warped dialogue of the troupe did not add much to the humor, but it did effectively shatter the mystique surrounding Monty Python stemming from my ignorance of the group's background and appearance. Had they but remained unseen, the Monty Python figures would have preserved their demigods-of-comedy status in my mind...
...disclaimer, Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe begins on an appropriately self-parodying note. The stentorian voice-over--a Python staple--introduces the film by touting the ensuing movie as an historic encounter in the annals of entertainment, accompanied by strains of Pomp and Circumstance in the background. After seeing the various members of the two comedy groups frolic about in the London streets outside of Her Majesty's Theatre for a few minutes, the movie cuts to the famous Monty Python dead parrot skit. This sequence reveals the fundamental problem with the movie at the very outset. The group...
Kerry L. Konrad '79, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC), said yesterday the committee had discussed only the factual background of Brustein's proposal in its meeting last month. He added they had agreed to discuss "the substantive issues" in this Wednesday's meeting...
...himself proved that this is not at all a disqualifying attribute in the media age. The intense, bright (Hart graduated from the Yale Law School) and photogenic Hart might well become the leading liberal alternative to "Government cannot..." Carter and "Era of limits" Brown in 1980. Though Hart's background would almost certainly lead to his being labeled a "McGovernite" or a "radical liberal" by his Democratic opponents in the primaries or by the Republicans in the fall should he be nominated, Hart demonstrated in his 1974 campaign that he is not unyieldingly wedded to outworn liberal doctrine...