Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knows-where (not to mention Anthony Mason of Miami) all standing sternly, introspectively, for a tired old song they hear night after night? As the national anthem strikes up before every National Basketball Association game, the trash-talking, the rivalries and the sneaker contracts all fade into the background as the players appear to become consumed, if only for a moment, by their national pride. Television cameras--on the rare occasions when the anthem is televised-- zoom in for tight close-ups of the young men, evoking images of battle-weary soldiers going back out into the field. These guys...
...aimed at Clinton, the President will be doing his best to ignore it for as long as he can. No one at the White House, not a soul, will engage in an on-the-record discussion of a Dole-Clinton matchup. Many won't even do it on background. "Nope," says adviser George Stephanopoulos. "No, no, no, no, no. Uh-uh." Clinton's strategists think it will be a tough, ugly, close election. They have a healthy fear of disaster in Bosnia, eruptions of bimbos, new Whitewater embarrassments, a host of other unpredictables. And they realize that while many...
...knew they had a hit and quickly turned it into a full-length show called Riverdance. Composer Bill Whelan wrote the score, which uses traditional forms like the jig and the reel. And Michael Flatley, the volcanic star of the short segment, devised the choreography. All four had a background in television or the theater, which paid off in the show's drive and shrewd pacing. Americans are about to get their first look at this phenomenon...
...Background...
Four of the 12 delegates are officers of the Harvard Asia Law Society (HALS), the group organizing the trip. The other eight are students with a strong interest and background in Asia, according...