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Word: backgrounder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Karen seems to genuinely sympathize with the woman in her study: "It's so hard for some of these women to express themselves," she tells me afterwards, detailing childhoods filled sometimes with violence, more often simply missing the background in social skills like self-presentation that so many other people take for granted...

Author: By Kathryn R. Markham, | Title: Raining in Baltimore | 9/28/1996 | See Source »

...think he was pleased to see I'd had a good background in training," she says of her coach, "Stoney." "I don't think he's entirely comfortable yet. He has to find a different way to relate to me as a fighter...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Parker Jabs Stereotypes Of Boxing | 9/21/1996 | See Source »

...Defense of Liberal Education" (Sept. 16), addresses a question that has received too little attention and serious reflection in the often charged debates over "diversity" at the University. What exactly are the social or intellectual benefits of diversity--and of what kind of diversity? (Of opinions? ethnic background? experience?) Additionally, Choi raises an issue that continues to occupy all modern democracies: the proper balance between the necessary cultivation of elites and the egalitarian ground tenor of democracy. (Choi comes down squarely on the side of the elites, or the "few best souls," as he calls them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choi's Ideas on Education Are Pre-Industrial | 9/20/1996 | See Source »

...persona and role-playing becomes oddly important on this album is the extreme emphasis placed on Stipe's voice. Most songs seem engineered so as to push Stipe's vocals right up to the front of the music, with the instrumentals forming a more distant, solid layer of background noise. Stipe's style and diction has also changed somewhat from previous albums. He sports a breathy, melodic fullness, especially on the single "E-bow the Letter," which is a departure from the stylized, wavery thinness on which his career was built. Certain pronunciations also seem peculiar, even to the point...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: R.E.M. Turns Corn-Belt Rock Gods | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...wunderkind responsible for Maxinquaye. Maxinquaye was an ambitious and multifacted studio project, drawing on influences ranging from Public Enemy to Issac Hayes. And if Portishead didn't manage to hammer the seductive groove from "Ike's Rap" into your head with their single "Sour Times" (the tune even provided background music for a suitably glum and nubile Liv Tyler's bicycle ride in this summer's Stealing Beauty) then Tricky did with the dark but luscious "Hell Is Around the Corner...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: Tricky Reaches Near Perfection With Nearly God | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

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