Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...From Background to Foreground
...Native Americans at Harvard seek the University's support. They say they don't look for individual endorsement, but rather for acknowledgment of their people's place in both the fore-ground and background of the United States...
...joined Commerce, Huang enjoyed special treatment from his friends in the West Wing. One favor came in the form of a top-secret security clearance that Huang was awarded while still a private citizen. TIME has obtained an official memo waiving the need for Huang to undergo a full background check before receiving the clearance. "Huang is granted this waiver," says the one-page document signed by the personnel-security chief of the Commerce Department, "due to the critical need for his expertise in the new Administration [by] Secretary Brown...
...horrendous." It is particularly disturbing, Harris says, because Lippo's shared ownership of a Hong Kong bank with the Beijing government could have opened an intelligence gusher to the People's Republic. "This failure could undermine the confidence of U.S. allies," Harris says. "Given Huang's history and background, it was unthinkable that an intelligence service wouldn't have done a foreign field check...
This is part of the background to Johns' targets, and a little further back is another form of "targeting"--the virulent hatred and distrust of homosexuals as deviants and possible spies that the right encouraged. Johns was a reserved, closeted gay, and a work like Target with Four Faces, 1955, is all about threat and concealment. Its impassive, identical plaster casts of faces are contained in a box with a hinged door, a "closet" above the ominous target. Your gaze, in looking at them, is assimilated to the eye of the inquisitor, hunting out what is concealed...