Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that has been chosen is interesting and engaging, and the documentation offers a fairly thorough look at the development of comics in French-speaking Western Europe over the last fifty years. Unfortunately, the supporting information is not as richly detailed as it could be, nor does it offer any background material on the history and culture against which it's being presented. The result is that, to the viewer with no previous knowledge of comics history or culture, the documentation will not be as educational as the designers hoped. The layout of the exhibit is also somewhat baffling, and, regrettably...
Penn said that certain demographic groups tend to score lower because "the test reflects the kinds of opportunities people have." He said good predictors of a student's SAT score include such variables as parents' educational background, family income and geographic location. Poorer students and students from rural and inner-city backgrounds tend to score worse, he noted...
Harvard students' allegiance to libertarianism is not only irrational, it is absurd, especially when one considers our privileged background. When Aristotle said that a man without a city is either a beast or a god, he was using hyperbole to demonstrate that our natural position is in a political society with our peers. Such a society inherently implies limits and boundaries on the scope of individual action...
...Some background on the show's sources helps explain its weirdness. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is based on a silent 1920 German Expressionist film of the same name about a mysterious hypnotist who enters a German town and causes all manner of horror and havoc. The film, in turn, draws upon the work of a curious theater of the time based in Paris called the Grand Guignol. For over six decades, the Guignol produced plays resembling a grotesque puppet show, but with live actors. Real-life crime and bawdiness were brought to the stage for elite audiences craving campy...
...production also makes excellent use of background music--evoking besottedness, melancholy, celebration, or uneasy anticipation. The soundtrack ranges from Haydn to Tom Waits to the Pet Shop Boys...